Women Picturing Revolution

Westchester Photographic Society presents, Lesly Deschler Canossi from the International Center of Photography and co-creator of Women Picturing Revolution.

Lesly will discuss her creative process with an emphasis on Women Picturing Revolution which she co-created with independent curator Zoraida Lopez-Diago in the summer of 2016. Through leading seminars and curating panels Women Picturing Revolution (WPR) is reclaiming and retelling history in a manner that is both radical and necessary. From fine art photography made as a response to forced silence, oppression, and the inability to act, to well-known visual journalists documenting upheaval, WPR examines not only the photographs but also the work of female-identifying photographers who document conflicts, crises, and revolution in private realms and public spaces. Lesly and Zoraida are currently co-editing a book of essays and images entitled Representations of Black Motherhood and Photography (published by Leuven University Press and distributed by Cornell University, spring 2021). They will be presenting on this work at the Fast Forward: Women in Photography Conference at the Tate Modern in December 2019.

For more information about Ms. Canossi, click here.

photo credit: Katrín Björk