Photo Oxford Festival opens on 15 October with outdoor projections on the Ruskin School of Art building. This leads into a launch weekend of activity including Portfolio Reviews, film screenings, tours and opportunities to meet artists and curators in their exhibition spaces. The Festival is themed around Women and Photography - Ways of Seeing and Being Seen.
Of particular interest to BPH are exhibitions:
- Line and Texture: The photography of Nancy Sheung (1914-1979)
- Images of Liberation: Sally Fraser’s photography of women’s protest
- Dearly Beloved. Photographs by: Jim Grover
- Photography & The Book
- Dwelling: In This Space We Breathe by Khadija Saye
- Greta Garbo: Hollywood Icon
- Moments of Transition: The photographs of Grace Robertson
- Anna Atkins: Botanical Illustration & Photographic Innovation (2020), and
- A Women and Early Colour Photography: An Autochrome Trail takes visitors around Oxford
The events programme includes:
- Conference: ‘Women, Memory & Transmission. Postcolonial perspectives from the arts & literature’
- Persevere Young Man: Grace Robertson and Picture Post
- Elinor Carucci - 1986 till today
- Mary Somerville: Refocusing the Queen of Science
- Phytography Workshop
- Cyanotype Workshop
- Anthotypes Workshop
Visit the website for more details and to book: https://www.photooxford.org/home
Image: © Estate of Nancy Sheung | Staircase, 1960s
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