![]() ![]() The work of the ten women photographers presented here, encompassing photographs as well as artist photobooks, displays an array of motivations, working practices, subject matter, and styles. This exhibition gives a platform to these groundbreaking voices and a new audience for their singular visions. More and more women have joined men in taking private courses in photography despite the continued dearth of university-level programs in the medium. ![]() In Ukraine, this situation continued beyond the Soviet period into the 21 st century it was only in the late 2000s that the number of women artist-photographers began to grow. What these Soviet-era underground artistic milieus shared-both in Russia and Ukraine-was a scarcity of female artists and an absence of female photographers. This collective, whose members were predominantly male, came to be known as the Kharkiv School of Photography. Although underground artists in Soviet Russia rarely worked with photography, a group working in Kharkiv, Ukraine utilized this medium exclusively. During the Soviet period, photography was not approved by the communist regime as an official artistic medium. Reclaiming Agency: Ukrainian Women Photographers Today presents works by ten Ukrainian female photographers, who have all been active in the decades following Ukraine’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Reclaiming Agency: Ukrainian Women Photographers Today October 8 - December 23, 2022
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