Regards de Femmes

Photography is approached here as a form of social observation, political attention, and critical image-making.

The works move between documentary photography, portraiture, street photography, archival research, conceptual practice, and staged images.

The selection includes artists whose work has shaped different photographic languages. Diane Arbus, Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, and Judith Joy Ross examine public life, social presence, and the expressive force of the portrait. Graciela Iturbide, Paz Errázuriz, Adriana Lestido, Yolanda Andrade, Luz María Bedoya, Kattia García Fayat, and Tarrah Krajnak address questions of identity, ritual, urban life, memory, displacement, and marginalised communities, particularly in Latin American contexts.

Other positions focus on the political and structural conditions of images. Martha Rosler, Andrea Geyer, Moyra Davey, and Zoe Leonard work with photography as a tool for critique, reflection, and institutional questioning. Ursula Schulz-Dornburg and Jo Ractliffe examine landscape, architecture, conflict, and historical traces, showing places as carriers of memory rather than neutral spaces.

The catalogue does not propose a single female gaze. It shows how photography can record lived conditions, question social norms, and make visible structures of power, exclusion, care, and memory.