About
Feminist Photography Network is a shifting collective led by directors, Ursula Handleigh, Jennifer Long, Clare Samuel, & Stacey Tyrell that uses grassroots strategies to support women (cis and trans) and non-binary artist’s engagement with, and interrogation of, photography.
Our core values are intergenerational and intersectional dialogues, emphasizing support vs competition, using old and new technologies to connect artists, and reimagining and humanizing professional art practice.
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Left: Farihah Aliyah Shah, Laden Hands, 2017
from the series Bille said 'Strange Fruit'
Background
Feminist Photography Network (FPN) was founded by Jennifer Long and Clare Samuel, through talks with Mary-Ann Kennedy and Katherine Parhar. We all attended the Fast Forward: Women & Photography conference in November 2015. We were all moved to continue this vital discussion around gender and our medium. In the contexts of both our locations in Canada and Scotland we wanted to create grassroots ways of supporting women's' engagement with, and interrogation of, photography. Kennedy and Parhar started WildFires, a collective of Scottish photographers and an online portfolio. We started FPN in Canada, and our focus is on exposure, support for production, critical research into the relationship between gender and the lens, and building international dialogues. In 2024, FPN grew and now includes Ursula Handleigh and Stacey Tyrell as directors.
FPN is based in Tkaronto (Toronto) on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. As settlers, we the directors are thankful for opportunity to live and work on this land, and we acknowledge the urgent need for justice for indigenous people. Statements are not enough, action can be taken by learning about and supporting the following organizations:
Indigenous Curatorial Collective
Indian Residential School Survivors Society
Native Women’s Resource Centre of Toronto
Toronto Aboriginal Support Services Council
2-Spirited People of the 1st Nations
Native Child and Family Services of Toronto
Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres
Stacey Tyrell, Hispania, from the Pour La Victoire series, 2016
