This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up a special edition in celebration of International Women’s Day on 8th March featuring the laureate and finalists of this year’s International Women Photographers Award.
These Awards don’t get the kind of coverage in the media that World Press Photo, POYi and others receive and that’s one good reason to feature them this week. The other, and the most important, is that these Awards demonstrate the amazing work being done by women photographers all over the world. These images will go on show at an exhibition in Dubai which opens on International Women’s Day.
Plus in Melbourne Magnet Galleries hosts its 7th annual women’s exhibition which raises funds for UN Women.
Special Feature:
in celebrating International Women’s Day
The 2017 International Women Photographers Awards
Laureate
Chicago
“Cornered” 2015-2016. Photography, Performance.
Finalists
Ana Alexandrescu
Romania
Anne Ackermann (German)
Uganda
Behind Veils and Walls – Female Somali refugees living in exile
Cécile Smetana Baudier (Danish/French)
Florencia Trincheri
Argentina
Haruhi Fujii
Japan
Marcela Barrios-Hernandez (Colombian) France
Neus Solá (Spanish)
France
Poupées – identity and freedom of young gypsy girls of the suburb of La Cité of Perpignan
Ranita Roy
India
Chhordima, my grandma
Soheila Sanamno
Iran
(Rape destroy’s the victim’s future – Roghayyeh is a 26 year old Iranian girl who was raped in her 20’s. This is her story.)
Sumy Sadurni (Spanish)
South Sudanese refugees in Northern Uganda
Exhibition: Melbourne
GAIA – Group Exhibition of Women Photographers
Magnet Galleries, Melbourne
(C) Judith Crispin – Rosy & the Flame Tree Seedpods
(C) Marisa Ho
(C) Jenny Hodge – Sand
(C) Amy Feldtmann
Visit the Magnet site to see when the artists talks are on.
Magnet Galleries
Level 2
640 Bourke Street
Melbourne
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