2019 Projects/ News
The last CLPA newsletter of 2019 brings to an end our series on gender discussions. This issue deals with stereotype masculinities of and within photography, especially in relation to technologies and language. In the Reflection section, members respond to questions about language and how it affects how we view, read and think about photographs, particular how spoken, local and colonial languages are implicitly entangled in photography.
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The second CLPA newsletter of this year deals with gender binaries in African photography, looking back at how gender binaries came into play in the last few decades. In the Reflection section, members respond to their role as educators in dealing with notions of identity and photography, especially representation of identity.
John Fleetwood was the curator for the June edition of the Der Greif Guest-Room online exhibition. Guest curators select images to de/ recontextualize single images from open call submissions.
Each Guest-Room kicks off with a collaboration where the curator teams up with another practioner to choose a theme. In this edition, John Fleetwood worked with Eric Gyamfi, Ghana and selected the following quote as framework for the exhibition.
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The latest issue of the CLPA News introduces our 2019 focus on gender. Questions about African women’s visibility and representation, history, and the workplace will be addressed by invited contributors and writers. In this issue Candice Jansen points to the multiplicity and depth of reading women’s role in photography in Africa and their absence in recorded history.
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