Fast Forward: Interviewing Women Photographers
Wainwright, Jean (2019) Fast Forward: Interviewing Women Photographers. Taylor & Francis.
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Fast Forward: Interviewing Women Photographers consists of a series of interviews recorded in situ with specific female photographers when they were either showing in a major exhibition, in an Art Fair or in their studio or home, both internationally and in the UK. Wainwright’s research centred on the authenticity of the artist’s voice in the context of whose histories are told and who has been overlooked. The raw unmediated material of the interview became a series of linked outcomes with a common research question.
The Fast Forward Research project became a catalyst for Wainwright’s archival interviews with women photographers to be contextualised with the addition of new multi-cultural recordings redressing some of the absences in photographic histories. The interviews highlight the development and importance of women photographers worldwide through their own voices.
The Vocal Cord (2015) paper linked together Tina Barney, Steffi Klenz, Hellen van Meene, Helen Sear, Gillian Wearing and Sue Williamson for the Tate Modern Conference.
The exhibition Trailblazers: Pioneers of British Photography (2019) consisted of a series of eighteen commissioned interviews of Women Photographers speaking about their specific work, highlighting the history of women photographers, and continued the research questions initially raised by the Tate Conference. Installed in the gallery for the duration of the exhibition they are also being added to the Lightbox website as a permanent record of the exhibition. The new interviews each focused on a specific work that was discussed for its significance at the time.
The 'Fast Forward and Rewind: Voices of Women Photographers' article for Photography and Culture further reveals the dynamics and authenticity of the interview with women photographers, with first-hand accounts of some of the issues regarding race and gender.
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