MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography announces the Greek edition of Fast Forward Women in Photography, which is organised in partnership with the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) and the University of Sunderland. The theme for the fifth conference, to be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, will focus on the hidden (hi)stories of women’s photographies seeking to reflect on current debates on gender justice, 17-19 May 2024.

“Writing about the recognition of ‘women’ as a political subject and questioning who has the power to define what ‘women’ means, Silvia Federici urged: “We must identify the world of antagonistic politics and power relations by which our bodies are constituted and rethink the struggles that have taken place in opposition to the ‘norm’ if we are to devise strategies for change” (2020: 10). And indeed, as Françoise Vergès argued, if we are to “re-humanise the world” and fight against the ways “femonationalism” and “femoimperialism” service neoliberalism (2021:17), we need to move beyond mainstream narratives and normative histories, beyond relational notions of centres and peripheries and bring to the fore the hidden stories of anonymous women, those identifying as women and non-binary people told by and through photography.”

J’y présente une partie de mes recherches sur la collection de tirages noir et blanc de l’agence Black Star, conservée aujourd’hui au Centre de l’Image de la Toronto Metropolitan University: “The Hidden (Hi)stories of the Daily Life of Photojournalism: the Black Star Agency’s Photography Library and its ‘métiers de femmes’”.

Merci à  Anna Fox (Fast Forward, University for the Creative Arts) ; Maria Kapajeva (Fast Forward, University for the Creative Arts & Estonian Academy of Arts) ; Iro Katsaridou (MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography & Hellenic Open University); Areti Leopoulou (MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography); Alexandra Moschovi (University of Sunderland); Penelope Petsini (University of West Attica & Panteion University)