1 00:00:00,180 --> 00:00:03,870 Thank you very much. And it's been it's been an amazing day. 2 00:00:03,870 --> 00:00:07,820 I've been literally glued to my screen as if I watching my favourite film of all times. 3 00:00:07,820 --> 00:00:11,880 I thank you everybody who's been here and and thank you to the people organising. 4 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:17,350 Should I just share my screen now? Fast forward women in photography. 5 00:00:17,350 --> 00:00:24,510 And this is the Web site, and obviously Instagram was started after a discussion. 6 00:00:24,510 --> 00:00:31,900 Can't even move on now. OK. Moving on between my colleague at University Creative Arts, Karen Noor, 7 00:00:31,900 --> 00:00:41,080 and I started talking in 2013 about the way our women students were getting on in the world. 8 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:50,680 And we noted that we had about sometimes 100 percent women in our classrooms are suddenly at master's level, 9 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:55,780 and yet we still weren't becoming visible enough in the outside world. 10 00:00:55,780 --> 00:01:03,610 And I'm well aware of the significance of what VR Williams is talking about, how we talk about women and success. 11 00:01:03,610 --> 00:01:13,720 And I know that there are many successful women. But what I was interested in is the fact that many women are not visible enough. 12 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:22,120 What we were interested in. And I think also something else well said, which is really important in relation to what we're trying to do is, 13 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:26,110 is think about an idea of a redefinition of what is a career. 14 00:01:26,110 --> 00:01:32,020 And everything we talk about in our society seems so over, defined by the patriarchy, I thought. 15 00:01:32,020 --> 00:01:38,020 So I thought that was a really important point. We're also very interested in the idea of rediscovering photographers. 16 00:01:38,020 --> 00:01:42,220 So this is the this is the steering committee. 17 00:01:42,220 --> 00:01:53,400 And Maria Paiva is the network facilitator. So we have a great group of people who've been incredibly helpful and supportive all the way. 18 00:01:53,400 --> 00:02:00,240 This is the front of our Web sites, which I hope that after this many of you will subscribe to. 19 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:05,040 So it's quite clear what we're trying to do in very simple terms. 20 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:09,200 And this is why we started. And in a way, I was looking at this earlier. 21 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:14,760 It's already looks old fashioned because so much has happened since 2014. 22 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:21,960 But when we started this, we didn't really didn't feel that women's photographers were well enough told. 23 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:30,180 And I know I was really interested with Terrace's introduction and some of those books are in my slideshow as well. 24 00:02:30,180 --> 00:02:39,150 So there has been a lot that's written, but we need more and we need to focus in different ways on how to promote women. 25 00:02:39,150 --> 00:02:46,350 These are a few things that were happening at the time that we started the project or just after. 26 00:02:46,350 --> 00:02:53,880 There are also we also identify there there. There are other issues for for it for women of Towfighi, aside from not being noticed as photography. 27 00:02:53,880 --> 00:03:02,100 And some of these issues are shared. And some of the discussion we've had along the way is wanting to talk about how we can deal with these issues. 28 00:03:02,100 --> 00:03:07,730 So just a few examples of numbers. And of course, I can't. 29 00:03:07,730 --> 00:03:12,630 Can I get rid of that? I don't see myself in the corner. 30 00:03:12,630 --> 00:03:21,690 Sorry, I'm content on this often enough. The Art of Totally Royal Academy, 98 Photographers for Women, Cruel and Tender, 31 00:03:21,690 --> 00:03:27,960 which was Tate Modern's first major photography show, 2003, 24 photographers, three women. 32 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:38,100 And and it goes on and, you know, possibly the most shocking BBC for history of British photography, which is much more recent, had four programmes. 33 00:03:38,100 --> 00:03:45,810 And throughout these four programmes, there were only eight women photographers, although there were women curators and writers, 34 00:03:45,810 --> 00:03:53,070 and they were all dead women photographers, despite the final programme being focussed on contemporary photography. 35 00:03:53,070 --> 00:04:02,910 So here's some of the wonderful books that have been written either about women in photography or or around women photographers photography, 36 00:04:02,910 --> 00:04:13,950 and they date right back to, as Taoist said, the woman's eye, which I also understand to be the first book about women in photography to firecrackers, 37 00:04:13,950 --> 00:04:20,460 which may not be the most recent now anymore. There might be something new, but it was the most recent when I made this slideshow. 38 00:04:20,460 --> 00:04:24,930 So what we can discuss is what will we to do? 39 00:04:24,930 --> 00:04:28,200 And networking has been mentioned several times today. 40 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:37,710 And I really think this is a key. I think Deborah mentioned the urgency of of networks and networking and also somebody 41 00:04:37,710 --> 00:04:42,330 else mentioned how how we should be how we should be creating productive networks. 42 00:04:42,330 --> 00:04:48,630 And, you know, we were thinking, Carol, I was thinking like, you know, what would the guys do in this situation when I've got something to say? 43 00:04:48,630 --> 00:04:53,340 And, you know, they would go to the top institutions, to the big players and photography. 44 00:04:53,340 --> 00:05:00,210 So we went we made a meeting with Tate Modern and we had a fantastic discussion with show our Melbourne and Simon Baker, 45 00:05:00,210 --> 00:05:09,240 who were both there at the time. And they agreed to do a symposium in 2013 to test the waters to see what the interest was. 46 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:18,990 The interest was enormous. And the symposium was sold out at embarrassingly people knocking at the door to try and come in last minute. 47 00:05:18,990 --> 00:05:29,700 And so after that, we agreed to follow this up in 2015 with the first Fastforward Women Photography Conference in collaboration 48 00:05:29,700 --> 00:05:37,020 with Williams at University Arts London and obviously at Tate Modern and with University for the Creative Arts. 49 00:05:37,020 --> 00:05:42,930 And, you know, this was incredibly supported by both by all three institutions involved. 50 00:05:42,930 --> 00:05:47,670 And we're all incredibly grateful to them after that. 51 00:05:47,670 --> 00:05:52,590 And, you know, again, that was incredibly successful, very completely sold out. 52 00:05:52,590 --> 00:05:54,420 And you can see all the recordings, 53 00:05:54,420 --> 00:06:04,560 all the video recordings on our website of all these conferences we went on through the help of Maria Piver to do the same. 54 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:13,870 Another new conference at the National Gallery of Art in in in Lithuania. 55 00:06:13,870 --> 00:06:18,700 Which was 2070. That was our second conference off, the first conference, 56 00:06:18,700 --> 00:06:25,630 I applied again with help from my colleagues, editing help from my colleagues to the Leave Him Trust. 57 00:06:25,630 --> 00:06:34,300 And was successful in gaining a networking grant with six partners who are incredibly dedicated masses of their time. 58 00:06:34,300 --> 00:06:35,630 Also to make this happen. 59 00:06:35,630 --> 00:06:46,810 And here are the partners listed who are still involved with working with us and continuing in the energy that came out of this. 60 00:06:46,810 --> 00:06:57,490 And again, you can see all our all these workshops, the summaries of all the workshops, they were all recorded and the recordings in our archive. 61 00:06:57,490 --> 00:07:04,630 But we assured everyone that these recordings would not be made public except for individuals doing research. 62 00:07:04,630 --> 00:07:12,480 And so the summaries of all these workshops are on on the Web site. 63 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:18,690 Maria also started incredible Instagram site, Instagram page. 64 00:07:18,690 --> 00:07:25,510 Women in photo fastforward, women in photo, which now has almost 15000 followers. 65 00:07:25,510 --> 00:07:28,200 And it's incredible. It's really, really interesting. 66 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:35,550 And in the new year, we're going to start some live conversations to test out a series of life conversations on on this site. 67 00:07:35,550 --> 00:07:40,110 So please also join that. It's just a few pages from it. 68 00:07:40,110 --> 00:07:44,510 Really incredibly vivid and lots of exciting new imagery. 69 00:07:44,510 --> 00:07:48,210 I'm just always looking at it for reference. 70 00:07:48,210 --> 00:07:56,790 Those of us that work in universities will all know that we're collecting evidence of impact right now and how important that is. 71 00:07:56,790 --> 00:08:03,930 I think another thing that's come up today is this idea of recording, you know, recording and saving archives, 72 00:08:03,930 --> 00:08:09,970 how difficult it is for all of us to keep records of everything and make sure we keep hold of them. 73 00:08:09,970 --> 00:08:15,840 You know, we heard that the signals archive was destroyed. I've heard of many archives being destroyed. 74 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:22,240 So these are some of the impacts, in a way, of all the people who work together with us at the time of the first conference, 75 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:33,330 publishing magazines and articles that were either devoted to women in photography or included interviews and discussions around our subjects. 76 00:08:33,330 --> 00:08:41,460 The lightbox, she's also mentioned today, curated an amazing show on British women in photography. 77 00:08:41,460 --> 00:08:49,590 It was beautifully done. And one thing in particular that I thought was really interesting is the contextual information that was provided, 78 00:08:49,590 --> 00:08:55,800 especially in things like captions and the website was very, very important. 79 00:08:55,800 --> 00:09:01,890 Natasha Caruana and I also. I'm smiling because this was quite, quite a thing. 80 00:09:01,890 --> 00:09:08,830 We're invited to take part for several years in the photography show in Birmingham, and it's really a male dominated affair. 81 00:09:08,830 --> 00:09:18,640 But we ran a women in photography stand and also had several speaking events there, which I think was important. 82 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:24,160 Several people started things because of what we were doing and involved us in it. 83 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:38,050 Pickfair run one or two, maybe even three women behind the lens competitions at the Tate Modern invited fun group to come and do a presentation, 84 00:09:38,050 --> 00:09:47,020 which we supported Delphin for Windu had given a presentation at our Living Room funded research workshop in New York. 85 00:09:47,020 --> 00:09:54,590 So that was also a really important moment in our research workshop in Lagos photo. 86 00:09:54,590 --> 00:10:03,430 We applied together with the Lagos Photo Organisation to the British Council in West Africa for a fundamental shift scheme, 87 00:10:03,430 --> 00:10:11,020 which included six West African photographers and two British women photographers that went on for a year. 88 00:10:11,020 --> 00:10:15,430 And some of the work from that Charlotte younger Heather Agfarm at Fenosa, 89 00:10:15,430 --> 00:10:23,140 Yvonne and Matt and others can be seen on our gallery, which is also on the website. 90 00:10:23,140 --> 00:10:29,950 Also in Shanghai, Karen Noor and I had a wonderful two person show, another way of telling, 91 00:10:29,950 --> 00:10:39,490 and the Bush council collaborated with us and with the Shanghai Centre of Photography to host a mentorship meeting for 10 92 00:10:39,490 --> 00:10:46,570 emerging Chinese women photographers who then formed their own group inspired by this meeting called A Dream of Our Own. 93 00:10:46,570 --> 00:10:54,010 And we then curated a show of this work for were invited to do that for the Look Festival in Liverpool. 94 00:10:54,010 --> 00:11:05,890 And that was also down to Tracy Marshall. So finally then we proposed a third conference to Tate Modern, who brilliantly agreed. 95 00:11:05,890 --> 00:11:13,510 We also Valot University Arts London again, and that happened in 2019. 96 00:11:13,510 --> 00:11:21,220 And again, all of that is on on the website. You can listen to the recordings. And it's about a subject very close to all of our hearts. 97 00:11:21,220 --> 00:11:25,600 And particularly I was talking about this this morning. How do women work? 98 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:31,060 It's a massive subject and there has to be masses of work that could be done on it. 99 00:11:31,060 --> 00:11:35,230 Inspired by that, by the ideas for this, we work together with. 100 00:11:35,230 --> 00:11:42,760 We were invited by catalogue journal in Denmark to do a special issue of of the journal, the magazine journal. 101 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:47,470 And that was given away at the conference, almost like a conference catalogue. 102 00:11:47,470 --> 00:11:51,760 This is an image by Ga Ga Egill from India whose work we saw. 103 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:59,320 She gave us a gallery tour in the in the New Delhi leadership funded research workshop. 104 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:03,220 And we were also invited by talking culture. 105 00:12:03,220 --> 00:12:12,010 This is this is actually the last issue, our issue myself, that Williams, Emerich, Hiver editors an issue, a double issue, 106 00:12:12,010 --> 00:12:20,740 which is published online right now for women in photography, and the print version will be coming very soon. 107 00:12:20,740 --> 00:12:30,420 This is as though you can see all the different aspects of our activity on the research page or our site. 108 00:12:30,420 --> 00:12:35,270 And. I was really interested. 109 00:12:35,270 --> 00:12:40,160 Again, another comment by Erica is that you need the right researchers and funding. 110 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:43,970 And I thought, you know, we've seen some really strong presentations today. 111 00:12:43,970 --> 00:12:47,150 But one of the things I keep thinking about is the fragility of all this. 112 00:12:47,150 --> 00:12:53,450 I mean, it's so amazing that some of these stories are being told in some of these archives have been saved. 113 00:12:53,450 --> 00:12:57,020 But it's very fragile. It's there's nothing secure in it. 114 00:12:57,020 --> 00:13:00,440 And I know that's true probably for the whole of British photography, in a way. 115 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:05,060 But it seems particularly pertinent to women's photography. 116 00:13:05,060 --> 00:13:12,200 So also on the Web site, earlier this year, we had some funding from U.K., our eye, and we were able, 117 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:19,280 together with the support of our research office at UCLA, to develop a manifesto for women in photography. 118 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:23,330 And if you go to the website, you'll see this purple banner at the top. 119 00:13:23,330 --> 00:13:30,500 And when you click it, you get to the manifesto. And again, it be fantastic if all of you signed it. 120 00:13:30,500 --> 00:13:34,490 We need a lot more signatures. It's doing well, but we need more all the time. 121 00:13:34,490 --> 00:13:41,990 And we hope to use this to campaign for further promotion of women's photography. 122 00:13:41,990 --> 00:13:48,530 Further things for women in photography and other things on the website include an opportunities page, 123 00:13:48,530 --> 00:13:53,300 which I'm totally invested in, and a journal page. 124 00:13:53,300 --> 00:14:02,580 And anyone who has stories that they want us to feature or opportunity to advertise, please do send them to the fast food email address. 125 00:14:02,580 --> 00:14:05,820 So what next? Well, it's a tough world, isn't it? 126 00:14:05,820 --> 00:14:11,160 We all know that and I know other people were all applying for various fundings. 127 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:18,090 So we have several applications on the go and we have two new things that have been funded. 128 00:14:18,090 --> 00:14:24,720 And so we're really excited that we can continue. It's very hard to continue. 129 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:30,520 And up and coming in June 2021 is our fourth conference. 130 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:42,600 Again, in collaboration with Val Williams at University of London and with Tbilisi Museum of Photography and Multimedia. 131 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:49,500 And if it actually if we're hoping to it life, well, we plan to do it live actually in Georgia. 132 00:14:49,500 --> 00:14:55,620 And it'll be accompanied by a series of Night-Time projections in June will be summer. 133 00:14:55,620 --> 00:15:05,140 So of be really lovely. And we've also formed a collaboration with Taslim. 134 00:15:05,140 --> 00:15:15,540 In Doha, Qatar. And it's a three year partnership where we will initially run a research workshop in Qatar. 135 00:15:15,540 --> 00:15:26,330 Or if not possibly in Qatar online, followed by a yearlong mentorship programme with emerging women photographers and Fastforward and the festival. 136 00:15:26,330 --> 00:15:32,100 And then followed in 2023 by our fifth conference. 137 00:15:32,100 --> 00:15:40,420 And as we slip in another one in between our fifth conference on women and photography. 138 00:15:40,420 --> 00:15:41,481 Since.