Photography has inherited from painting a set of dominant genres: landscape, portraiture, still life, social realism and the nude. We at iris were interested in how women negotiate these five genres.
Shifting Horizons- Women’s Landscape Photography Now was the first book in the “Ellipsis” series, published in 2000. Throughout the history of photography the genre of landscape has been dominated by male perspectives. In this work, ten women photographers interpret the notion of “landscape” from a variety of perspectives.
2003 Masquerade, Women’s Contemporary Portraiture This volume explored the genre boundaries that define portraiture and contains 10 portfolios of images and 7 commissioned essays. (Magali Nougarede, Beth Yarnelle Edwards, Kathe Kowalski, Miranda walker, Laurie Long, Marla Sweeney, Catriona Grant, Sarah Pucill, Zineb Sadira and Trish Morrissey.
2005 Stilled, Contemporary Still Life Photography by Women, 6 essays and 10 portfolios of images. Lucinda Devlin, Veronica Bailey, Sarah Lynch, Sian Bonnell, Emma Hamilton, Gayle Chong Kwan, Laura Letinsky, Martina Mullany, Sang-nam Park and Helen Sear.
