Headstrong: Women and Empowerment
A Fast Forward: Women in Photography exhibition will highlight the work of living female photographers based in Britain who address various issues women face today.
Headstrong celebrates the work of living photographers based in Britain. It looks at women who have made work that is concerned with how they are represented, what they are dealing with in their everyday lives and what it means to embrace diversities that challenge the conservative order of a patriarchal society. Their work is playful, thought-provoking and often surprising.
Self-portraiture has always been a tool of empowerment for women. Societies have led us to believe that, as women, we have a certain place and need to perform in a certain way and this has been like wearing a straight jacket. Feminist politics have affected changes to these patriarchal ideas and photography has been one of its tools.
The exhibition is a part of the launch programme for Centre For British Photography, which will feature photographs from 1900 to the present, work by photographers living and working in the UK today, and images taken by those who immigrated to the UK.
OPENIGN TIMES:
Wed – Fri 10am – 6pm
Sat – Sun 11am – 4pm
Website
ADDRESS
Centre for British Photography, 49 Jermyn St, St. James's, London SW1Y 6LX, United Kingdom
