How the Cradle of Civilization Became Infertile
Adele Dalla Pozza
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October 15, 2019
The most pedantic voices we hear when mentioning Middle East are political instability, terrorism, extremism in religion, oppression of women, war from which da...
Pride Parades and Stonewall
Karolien Wilmots
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October 06, 2019
Essentially the riots that took place in 1969 in Lower Manhattan, NY are seen as the beginning of the gay rights liberation movement in the United States, becau...
The Misleading Use of "pro-life"
Chiara Fazzone
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September 29, 2019
The shift to the extreme right that the world is living in these past years carries multiple threats to the hardly- conquered women’s fundamental rights. One ...
“Change has to come from within"
Adele Dalla Pozza
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September 15, 2019
Lina, a 25 years old Palestinian architecture graduate, self-taught artist and poet based in Amman, the capital of Jordan, thinks that "not defining women's str...
Beyond Culture and Individualism, Towards Feminist Solidarities
Adele Dalla Pozza
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August 15, 2019
During my first class of anthropology at university I discovered I could not become anything else but an anthropologist, or at least it should be a great part o...
Fighting abuse against models:
Chiara Fazzone
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August 15, 2019
Models in the fashion industry are constantly exposed to make-up artists, hairstylists, photographers and others working behind the scenes like journalists betw...
The Right to Choose is a Human Right
Chiara Fazzone
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July 26, 2019
For women who led the feminist revolutions of the past decades and conquered liberation from laws that culturally erased women’s sexuality and their right to ...
Bloody stigma!
Chiara Fazzone
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June 14, 2019
Menstruation is a natural body function as any other. The average woman has her period for 2,535 days of the life, nearly seven years. Yet, women frequently fee...
Can our voice have a colour? Ask a photographer.
Chiara Fazzone
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May 14, 2019
The strength of colour is no secret. We associate it with feelings, phenomena and preferences, as we do to political fronts, movements and ideologies. Conventio...
Lost in Sofia Coppola’s Universe
Paola Maita + May 04, 2019
The first time I watched Lost in Translation (2003), I wasn’t aware of two things. The first one, was that it would become an irony to watch it with my husban...
Annie Collinge
Paola Maita + May 04, 2019
This week, we want to feature some pieces by Annie Collinge. She is a New York-based photographer. She has worked with Vice, Flaunt and Dazed, to name a few. Sh...
The Women of Experimental Photography
Dina Shirin
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April 24, 2019
Surrealism began in the early 1920s when artists started to experiment with photomontage, collage, double exposure and solarization techniques; unleashing emoti...
Exploring Identity through Self-Portraiture
Dina Shirin
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April 24, 2019
Self-portraiture has been used as a mode of expression in all artistic mediums since the 15th century. By focusing on the self as a subject, the artist examines...
Agnès Varda Passes Away at 90
Cathleen Berenyi
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April 23, 2019
Despite her age and breast cancer, the director Agnès Varda never stopped being active and participating in events in which she was directly involved (exhibiti...
Black Feminism
Cathleen Berenyi
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April 23, 2019
A group of students of the Master degree program in gender studies at the University Paris 8 are organizing a one day meeting called Féminisme(s) Noir(s), Touj...
No Man’s Land
Cathleen Berenyi
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April 23, 2019
No Man’s Land is a three day workshop intended for 8 women photographers, organized in Sarajevo (Bosnia) by VII agency and VII Foundation from the 9th to 11th...
Iceland: First Country in the World to Achieve Gender Pay Equality
Cathleen Berenyi
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April 23, 2019
The law, the first in the world concerning equal pay, was approved in March 2017, before International Women Day and was effective starting the first Monday of ...
"You look unreal."
Chiara Fazzone
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April 23, 2019
We all probably think of images from the 1950s and 60s when we talk about sexist advertisements, which is not wrong. We do however tend to neglect the pertinenc...
Shooting against gender discrimination in commercial photography
Chiara Fazzone
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April 22, 2019
It is no secret that photography has been a male-dominated industry since its birth. Historically, women have always been largely under-represented in the creat...
Diane Arbus
Chiara Fazzone
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April 22, 2019
Diane Arbus (born Diane Nemerov in 1923 to a wealthy Jewish family) was an American photographer of Russian origins, well known for her black and white images o...
Intersectional Feminism and the Beauty Within Diversity
Chiara Fazzone
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April 22, 2019
One crucial point that has to be clarified in order to fully appreciate Foto Femme United’s work is the idea of woman as perceived by this community. A woman ...
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