Imago Garage

Rua do Vale de Santo António 50A, 1170-381 Lisboa

Inauguration → 18 . 10 . 2025 → 18:00 pm

22 . 10 . 2025 → 08 . 11 . 2025

wednesday - saturday → 14:30 pm – 18:30 pm

Curated by

Anna Fox & Karen Knorr

In 2021 Professor of Photography Anna Fox (at University for the Creative Arts in Farnham) was awarded an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Engagement Fellowship by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, part of the UK Research Initiative. This Fellowship was designed to build on the Fast Forward: Women in Photography research project that aims to celebrate women and non-binary people in photography and has enabled the pioneering project Putting Ourselves in the Picture, exhibitied here in Lisbon, to support a community of marginalized women and non-binary people to use photography to tell emboldening stories about their lives.

www.fastforward.photography

Putting Ourselves in the Picture was made in collaboration with five organisations recognised for their influence and importance:

Autograph ABP; Impressions Gallery, Bradford, National Galleries of Scotland; Women for Refugee Women; and Work Show Grow.

Through a series of innovative workshops and mentorship activities organised by the partners, Putting Ourselves in the Picture helped to develop the skills, knowledge of photography and confidence of the participants. The resulting photographs, films and texts, seen in this exhibition, educate us all. They increase our awareness of migrant and refugee women’s unheard life stories and show how photography can be used as a tool of empowerment.

The project participants: Ceecee, Rella, Rhody, Miya, Precious, Raolat, Phim, Leonelle, Linda, Nwanyi, Lovelin, Hannah, Grace, Maureen, Ana, Maryam, Sylvie, Taraneh, Elham, Manar, Vicky, and Josiane have all made work that opens our eyes, enthuses our ideas and crushes stereotypes. Putting Ourselves in the Picture tells herstories that confront gender discrimination and the marginalisation of women in our societies.

The book was published in 2022 by Trolley Books, London.