The Lens of Empowerment: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Women’s Photography
This is an International Network Project with partner members: School of the Arts, Loughborough University; Iris, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, South Africa; The International Academy of Art, Palestine; University of the Fraser Valley, British Columbia, Canada
The aim of this project is to research the relationship between woman, nation and photography. The partnership accommodates the concept of contested territories and multiple histories of settlement which in turn influence the modern nation state and its impact on women. The project aims to investigate how the camera lens might empower women as practitioners, interpreters and viewers of photographic representations in the geographically diverse partner nations. Differences and commonalities will be explored through shared projects and interactions which will be housed and archived in IRIS.
Two projects have been initiated: a residency in 2012 hosted by RADAR and the School of the Arts involving practitioners from our partners in South Africa and Western Canada who will work with a British woman photographer, and an international conference, Home/land: Women, Citizenship, Photographies, 5-7 July 2012.
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