Can the Fast Forward Manifesto change the world making it more diverse and representative? Anna Fox and Maria Kapajeva talk to different professionals in photography about their take on the points outlined in the Manifesto. How can we be sure the changes, suggested in the Manifesto, will be implemented in the future? The guests, Jean Wainwright, Karen Knorr and Hannah Starkey are sharing their personal experiences of working in the photography world and their opinions on how vital it is to include women’s stories in historical and contemporary conversations about photography. Aldeide Delgado shares the story of Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA): how and why it was founded and what can we learn from each other’s experiences.

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:

Jean Wainwright, Professor of Contemporary Art & Photography at UCA and a Steering Committee member of Fast Forward: Women in Photography

Karen Knorr, Professor of Photography at UCA, a Steering Committee member of Fast Forward: Women in Photography and Photographer

Hannah Starkey, Artist

Aldeide Delgado, Founder and Director of WOPHA and a Steering Committee member of Fast Forward: Women in Photography

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.