The V&A Museum has appointed Fiona Rogers as the inaugural Parasol Women in Photography curator. Rogers was at Magnum from 2005 to 2020, ending up as Chief Operating Officer, and most recently she was Director of Photography and Operations for Webber Represents. She will start at the V&A on 7 March 2022.
She is the founder of Firecracker which was set up in 2011 to promote women, those identifying as women and non-binary working in photography and has been a powerful voice in bringing women in photography to the fore. She also acts as a trustee of the Martin Parr Foundation and The Peter Marlow Foundation, and advises the Royal Photographic Society. She has authored (with Max Houghton) Firecrackers: Female Photographers (Thames & Hudson, 2017) celebrating contemporary women practitioners.
The Parasol Women in Photography curator was advertised last autumn (see: https://britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blogs/job-and-news-v-a-announces-the-parasol-foundation-women-in-photog)
Details of Firecracker can be found here: https://fire-cracker.org/
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