International Women in Photo is a French non profit aiming to create global change and reach gender equality and women empowerment. IWPA acts as a platform by promoting and highlighting women’s voices around the worlds providing exposure and support to women photographers and visual storytellers.
The roots of IWPA’s goals lie in the underrepresentation of women photographers, who do not receive sufficient recognition or assignments, and whose work comprises a tiny percentage of all the photographs we see daily in the press, social media, museums and art exhibitions.
The association promotes these objectives by organising the IWPA Award, which, with the help of a jury, selects eleven finalists from all the participants, including one winner. Alliance Française de Banjul wants to play its part in this positive process of representing women artists. We are therefore organising an exhibition featuring 3 participants of the IWPA Award : Lee-Ann Olwage, Luisa Dörr and Lorraine Turci.
Moreover, we are honoured to welcome the latter for a two-month artistic residency. Lorraine Turci will be in The Gambia to present her work to you, and to carry out some new research!
https://iwpa.fr/photographer/lorraine-turci/
Lorraine Turci’s work focuses on the complex relationships between human beings and their environment, exploring the interactions between territory, identity, transmission, nature, evolution and preservation. Going beyond appearances and social conditioning, her work gives shape to narratives in which the plurality of the world reveals its troubled beauty.
https://iwpa.fr/photographer/lee-ann-olwage/
https://iwpa.fr/photographer/luisa-dorr/
Luisa Dörr is a Brazilian photographer whose work is mainly focused on the feminine human landscape. Through the quietness of her storytelling, she uses the portrait as a vehicle to tell narratives, and explore the complexity of human nature and femininity.
Practical information:
25th April – 27th May 2024
Exhibition hall
Free of charge