Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA)in partnership with the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)presents the second edition of WOPHA Congressa series of creative meetings and exhibitions, taking place in South Florida, entitled “How photography teaches us to live now”which will take place from October 23 to 26, 2024. Conceptualized by the art historian and curator, Aldehyde Delgadothe conference presents the indelible contribution of women and non-binary photographers to contemporary art and explores how we can innovate to promote photography education.
The conference program will open to the public on Wednesday, October 23 with the WOPHA Assembly: Companion Technologies, hosted at and in partnership with the Norton Museum of Art, which will provide participants with opportunities to network, discuss the best teaching practices and examining the role of educational institutions in society. Representatives of women’s photography organizations in attendance include Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, co-founder of MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora (US), Anna Fox, co-founder of Fast Forward: Women in Photography (UK ), and Velia de la Cruz, founder of Fotografas del Norte (Mexico).
On Thursday, October 24, the day begins with three bilingual (English/Spanish) photo walks led by South Florida women photographers Clara Toro, Rose Marie Cromwell and Nicole Combeau, throughout Miami. After the photowalks, the WOPHA conference at PAMM begins with a group portfolio review session. The program brings together leading photography experts from South Florida and beyond, including Noelle Flores Théard, senior digital photo editor at The New Yorker, Verónica Sanchis Bencomo, founder and curator of Foto Féminas and photo editor at The New York Times, and Éline Gourgues, Co-director and curator of La Station Culturelle, Fort de France, Martinique. The evening will conclude in the PAMM Main Auditorium with welcome remarks from Sarah Meister, Executive Director of the Aperture Foundation, and panel discussions with leading national artists such as Silvia Lizama, Maria Martínez Cañas, Susan Meiselas and Wendy Ewald.
The WOPHA Congress continues the next day, Friday October 25, with a series of roundtables at PAMM with speakers from Japan, Canada, Spain and Vietnam who will reflect on photography, ecology and materiality. The event’s closing address will be delivered by venerable artist, author and curator Deb Willis. The day will conclude with the WOPHA Congress Party, an evening of music, networking and celebration at the JW Marriott Miami.
During WOPHA 2024, additional programs and exhibits, including What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women Reading Room from the Miami Dade Public Library (main branch), as well as Women Photographers – Shared Documentary Narratives at the HistoryMiami Museum, will be featured throughout Miami and will continue to be on view during Miami Art Week and through 2025.
Entrance to the PAMM Congress is free with RSVP. American Sign Language interpretation and live translations into Spanish and Creole will be available at PAMM and the Congress will be accessible online via live streaming on the PAMM YouTube channel.
For more information, please visit https://wophacongress.org/
About WOPHA
Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded to research, promote, support and educate about the contributions of women and non-binary photographers to modern and contemporary art in order to to rewrite the artistic canon. and bring about social change. WOPHA fosters a more diverse and equitable world by providing future generations with a permanent archive that preserves, documents and promotes the work of women photographers while being a driving force for innovative thinking and discussion about the role of women in the photographic arts .
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