New essay: “Completing an Unfinished Sentence: On the Collaboration between Sophie Thun and the Archive of Zenta Dzividzinska"

For this essay, I revisit the collaboration between the artist Sophie Thun and the archive of my mother, the artist and photographer Zenta Dzividzinska. The collaboration, initiated by the curator Zane Onckule, began in 2021 and later continues in Sophie’s other projects.

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Successful conference day! Our panel at the ASEEES 2021 Annual Convention

I had the pleasure and excitement to serve as a discussant at the ASEEES 2021 Annual Convention virtual session Fake Equality: The Activity, Impact, and Representation of Women in Photo Clubs and Organizations in the Late Soviet Period. The panel session went live Thursday, December 2, 2021 8am CST (4pm EET).

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Gisèle Freund about women photographers

Gisèle Freund in 1954 wrote that "Women are interested in things more than in their relations to each other. They are not easily attracted by political or current events, but they distinguish themselves in portraits, children’s photographs, and they know how to capture with subtlety every expression of everyday life." From today’s perspective, it may sound outrageously “anti-feminist” and patronizing. But what if she was right?

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