In this episode, Anna Fox and Maria Kapajeva continue the conversation about the Fast Forward Manifesto and how institutions and independent curators work on making the world of photography more inclusive and diverse. They have included in this conversation the Director of The Photographers’ Gallery in London, Brett Rogers, the Director of Impressions Gallery, Bradford, Anne McNeil and artist and independent curator Sunil Gupta.

Presented by Anna Fox and Maria Kapajeva (Fast Forward: Women in Photography)

Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio (Social Broadcasts)

Supported by: AHRC/UKRI ED&I (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) Engagement Fellowship and University for the Creative Arts

Voices in this episode:

Brett Rogers, OBE, Director of The Photographers’ Gallery

Sunil Gupta, Artist and a Steering Committee member of Fast Forward: Women in Photography

Anne McNeill, Director of Impressions Gallery

Fast Forward: Women in Photography in collaboration with Social Broadcasts

ave produced the podcast series Putting Ourselves in The Picture about the recent projects Fast Forward has been working on with funding from the AHRC/UKRI as part of an Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity Engagement Fellowship awarded to Anna Fox. The series features conversations about improving inclusivity and diversity in photography in partnership with partner organisations, participants and other photography professionals.

For the last year we have been working with five organisations in the UK, recognized for their influential endeavors, Impressions Gallery, National Galleries of Scotland, Autograph, Work Show Grow and Women for Refugee Women to engage with three groups of women migrants and refugees providing them with skills training and knowledge about photography as a tool of empowerment to give voice to their stories which in turn educate us. The project is called Putting Ourselves in the Picture and has also involved developing our Manifesto calling for increased involvement of women in photography.

Fast Forward, based at University for the Creative Arts in the UK, is designed to promote and engage with women in photography across the globe. We provoke new debate and ensure, as women photographers and professionals, that we are in the news and in the history books. There are millions of women in the world of photography and now is the time to arrest the process of forgetting that so frequently erases women from the burgeoning histories of photography and shed light on new ways of thinking, showing, discussing and distributing our work.