There are some awesome female photogs on this site so I thought I'd let you all know about this competition. Sorry men, this is a women only competition.
The Mpls Photo Centre in Minneapolis is inviting women from around the world to submit photographs that demonstrate a smart, critical take on women with cameras in this day of a more open and subtle notion of gendered identity. From the website:
Women have been actively involved with photography since the medium’s inception in 1839. The barriers to their participation were lower than in the other arts, and recognition often came faster. Yet women and their photographs have not been as visible as they should have been in view of their numbers and past influence. Only in fairly recent exhibitions and critical writings have women’s work in photography received due consideration.
Diane Arbus, Roni Horn, Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith and thousands more women use their cameras as instruments of revelation – often about themselves. In the process they challenge assumptions about what it means to be and be seen.
Submissions are only limited by your imagination and may cover a broad range of challenging, personal, emotional, and political issues facing women today. Their work-life, home, family, friends, relationships, life partners, homosexual, heterosexual, politics, equal rights, stereotypes, causes, roles and wishes.
@fillingtime I constantly question why there is such a disparity between men and women tographers at the high end level getting kudos on [brand name] websites and magazines .... maybe because we women support them to have all the time necessary to follow the trade?
Anyhoo - THANKS for this .... will head over and spread the word.
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Anyhoo - THANKS for this .... will head over and spread the word.