This woman’s work: the view from female Magnum photographers – in pictures
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This woman’s work: the view from female Magnum photographers – in pictures
‘Tender accounts’ … Jasmine and Laura-Joy kissing in the grand theater, Beirut, 2019. Photograph: Myriam Boulos
This woman’s work: the view from female Magnum photographers – in pictures
Main image: ‘Tender accounts’ … Jasmine and Laura-Joy kissing in the grand theater, Beirut, 2019. Photograph: Myriam Boulos
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Sabiha Çimen: A plane flies low over students riding a train at a funfair over the weekend, from the series Hafiz, Istanbul, 2018
Sabiha Çimen’s Hafiz (2017–2020) explores the lives of young Islamic women in Turkey. The series weaves an emotional narrative that calls forth Çimen’s own personal experiences, through collected vignettes of the daydreams, quiet rebellions and melodramas of students at all-girl Qur’an schools. Close Enough: New Perspectives from 12 Women Photographers of Magnum is on at International Center of Photography, New York, from 30 September 2022 until 9 January 2023
Photograph: Sabiha Çimen/Magnum Photos
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Myriam Boulos: Jasmine and Laura-Joy kissing in the grand theater, Beirut, 2019
Myriam Boulos’s tender accounts of the private lives and lived experiences of friends and strangers are set within the context of the collective losses and traumas that emerge amid economic instability, violent revolution and the devastating Port of Beirut explosion in 2020
Photograph: Myriam Boulos/Magnum Photos
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Nanna Heitmann: Policeman at a pro-Navalny protest, 2022
Nanna Heitmann publicly presents her ongoing work made in Russia and Ukraine for the first time since the current conflict began
Photograph: Nanna Heitmann/Magnum Photos
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Lua Ribeira: from the series Agony in the Garden, Almeria, Spain, 2021
Lua Ribeira’s ongoing series Agony in the Garden mirrors the extremes of hedonism and nihilism embodied in the emerging trap and drill music scene in Spain
Photograph: Lua Ribeira/Magnum Photos
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Hannah Price: Untitled (Pull Over), Brewery town, from the series City of Brotherly Love, 2011
Hannah Price’s 2009 series City of Brotherly Love comprises portraits of men on the streets of Philadelphia who had catcalled her on her daily travels. By turning her camera on these men, Price reconfigured the act, creating a series specific to her everyday encounters as a woman newly arrived in the city
Photograph: Hannah Price/Magnum Photos
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Alessandra Sanguinetti: The Necklace, from the series The Adventures of Guille and Belinda, Argentina, 1999
Alessandra Sanguinetti’s 24-year collaboration with Guille and Belinda – cousins who live in a rural province near Buenos Aires – is an episodic and ongoing photographic project that crystallises the cousins’ world as they move through childhood and youth toward womanhood. You can see more images from this series here
Photograph: Alessandra Sanguinetti/Magnum Photos
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Carolyn Drake: Jackie and Leah, from the series Knit Club, Mississippi, 2018
Carolyn Drake’s Knit Club (2012–2020) is a meditation on the mythologies and evocative presence of Southern Gothic culture that emerged from Drake’s collaboration and friendships with an enigmatic group of women and girls, which the work represents as a cross between a gang, a cult of mysteries, and a group of friends bound by secrets only they share. You can read about another image from this series here
Photograph: Carolyn Drake/Magnum Photos
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Newsha Tavakolian: Still from For the Sake of Calmness, Iran, 2020.
Newsha Tavakolian’s haunting film For the Sake of Calmness (2020) centres on the experience of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and the more severe premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), drawn from four years of research and interviews with over 100 women
Photograph: Newsha Tavakolian/Magnum Photos
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Olivia Arthur: from In Private, Mumbai 2018
In a selection of different works from recent years, Olivia Arthur brings human intimacy and bodily presences into close view. Starting with In Private (2016–2018), Arthur uses photographs drawn from her recent work as well as her archive to create a visual ‘mind map’ about physicality and intimacy in both private and public spaces. Together, the works also invite discussion about technology and how it can be used to enhance our bodies or create physical connections over long distances
Photograph: Olivia Arthur/Magnum Photos
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Bieke Depoorter: Agata, from the series Agata, Paris, 2017
A collaboration with Agata Kay, whom the artist met in a chance encounter in a strip bar in Paris, Bieke. It examines friendship and trust, biography and introspection, fact and fiction, and the complex relationship between photographer and subject
Photograph: Depoorter Bieke/Magnum Photos
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Cristina de Middel: Adeshina 25 years, from the series Gentlemen’s Club, Lagos, 2018
When Cristina de Middel placed an ad in Rio de Janeiro newspapers offering to pay male clients of sex workers for an hour of their time, the response was overwhelming. She began photographing and interviewing clientele in hotel rooms. She claimed the position of the ‘client’ that the men traditionally occupied – booking a hotel room for an hour, then paying the men the same amount that they would pay a sex worker. Her project Gentlemen’s Club (2015–2022) provides encounters with these men
Photograph: Cristina de Middel/Magnum Photos
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Susan Meiselas: Dawn, Suite 7, a refuge in the Black Country, from A Room of Their Own, 2016
Meiselas reflects upon her 2015–2017 project A Room of Their Own and its participatory process, which included working with an illustrator and a writer in collaboration with survivors of domestic abuse living in shelters in the Black Country. Set within the context of a postindustrial region in the UK, the stories create a resilient testimony of survival. You can read an interview with Susan Meiselas here
Photograph: Susan Meiselas/Magnum Photos
