Posts in Category : Women’s History Month
Card & Letters: A Closer Look
In honor of Women’s History Month, we are updating a post from a few years back that looked at the requests for information about PWP that came from women in the 1970s and 80s. If you read these letters closely, you get a sense of the isolation they felt in what had been a male-dominated profession. In the archives of Professional Women Photographers, there is a file of letters from women in the late 1970s and 1980s seeking information about the organization. They came from all over, from Illinois, Arkansas, Texas, even Italy. Some were handwritten, others were typed. Because there was no email, they were all on paper–notebook sheets, cheap postcards, fine bond. All wanted the same thing: information [continue reading...]
Sadie Hennessy: A Playful Take on Gender
March is Women’s History Month, a time to think about the immense contribution of women to all aspects of society in cultures all over the world. They truly hold up half the sky. Throughout March, Professional Women Photographers will take a look at the work and contributions of women artists. Today we are honored to present British artist Sadie Hennessy. In 2010, Hennessy won the Jealous Graduate Art Prize for her final MA show (Accident & Emergency) at Central St. Martins. In 2011, she was artist-in-residence in the Croydon College of Art printmaking department, which culminated in a solo show called Freud in Dreamland at the Parfitt Gallery in January 2012. She exhibited work at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011), [continue reading...]