The future of visual representation of African women
We’ve spent the last five episodes talking with artists and curators about the power of the female gaze, and how important it is to give it space in e...
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For almost 200 years, photographers have framed the way we see the world and shaped the visual culture that all of us live within. We spoke to artists, activists, and curators about the representation of African women in photography in relation to a new exhibition at the Ryerson Image Centre, The Way She Looks: A History of Female Gazes in African Portraiture. Podcast produced by The Walrus Lab.
Rethinking Colonial Imagery
In the nineteenth and early twentieth-century, images of African women by Western photographers were presented as ethnographic specimens or exotic cur...
Art as Activism
There’s a reason we buy art, go to exhibitions, invite our friends, argue about what we’ve seen over the dinner table. It may not be as in-your-face a...
Is there space in the visual culture for a diversity of Black womanhood?
Diverse representation. It’s a phrase that’s thrown around in a lot of sectors - hiring, publishing, politics, education and art. In Episode 3 of Sig...
Collecting and curating art by Black and African artists
Whether you're organizing an exhibition at a gallery or managing an Instagram account, curators must balance historical accuracy with the vision of th...
Challenging Mainstream Representations of African Women
Artists frame the way we see the world -- and their subjects, even in photos where you don’t see their agency, are part of that narrative. At the new...