Show Notes
Can the Fast Forward Manifesto change the world making it more diverse and representative? Anna Fox and Maria Kapajeva talk to different professionals in photography about their take on the points outlined in the Manifesto. How can we be sure the changes, suggested in the Manifesto, will be implemented in the future? The guests, Jean Wainwright, Karen Knorr and Hannah Starkey are sharing their personal experiences of working in the photography world and their opinions on how vital it is to include women’s stories in historical and contemporary conversations about photography. Aldeide Delgado shares the story of Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA): how and why it was founded and what can we learn from each other’s experiences.
Presented by Anna Fox and Maria Kapajeva (Fast Forward: Women in Photography)
Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio (Social Broadcasts)
Supported by: AHRC/UKRI ED&I (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) Engagement Fellowship and University for the Creative Arts
Voices in this episode:
Jean Wainwright, Professor of Contemporary Art & Photography at UCA and a Steering Committee member of Fast Forward: Women in Photography
Karen Knorr, Professor of Photography at UCA, a Steering Committee member of Fast Forward: Women in Photography and Photographer
Aldeide Delgado, Founder and Director of WOPHA and a Steering Committee member of Fast Forward: Women in Photography
Fast Forward: Women in Photography in collaboration with
Social Broadcasts ave produced the podcast series
Putting Ourselves in The Picture about the recent projects
Fast Forward has been working on with funding from the AHRC/UKRI as part of an Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity Engagement Fellowship awarded to Anna Fox. The series features conversations about improving inclusivity and diversity in photography in partnership with partner organisations, participants and other photography professionals.
For the last year we have been working with five organisations in the UK, recognized for their influential endeavors, Impressions Gallery, National Galleries of Scotland, Autograph, Work Show Grow and Women for Refugee Women to engage with three groups of women migrants and refugees providing them with skills training and knowledge about photography as a tool of empowerment to give voice to their stories which in turn educate us. The project is called
Putting Ourselves in the Picture and has also involved developing our
Manifesto calling for increased involvement of women in photography.
Fast Forward, based at University for the Creative Arts in the UK, is designed to promote and engage with women in photography across the globe. We provoke new debate and ensure, as women photographers and professionals, that we are in the news and in the history books. There are millions of women in the world of photography and now is the time to arrest the process of forgetting that so frequently erases women from the burgeoning histories of photography and shed light on new ways of thinking, showing, discussing and distributing our work.
What is Fast Forward Podcast?
Fast Forward is a research project concerned with women in photography based at University for the Creative Arts. Started in 2014 with a panel discussion at Tate Modern, the project has established a significance within the world of photography for highlighting the work of women photographers and for questioning the way that the established canons have been formed.
Fast Forward is designed to promote and engage with women and non-binary people in photography across the globe. There are millions of women in the world of photography and now is the time to arrest the process of forgetting that so frequently erases women from the burgeoning histories of photography and shed light on new ways of thinking, showing, discussing and distributing our work.
Fast Forward have started a discussion that will be on going and that many different people can continue to contribute to. Fast Forward is the foundation for an emerging international network of women in photography. Contributions that add to this discussion are welcome from any gender, race or class.