Join Pippa Oldfield and photographers Newsha Tavakolian, Alison Baskerville and Rena Effendi as they discuss their role as conflict and documentary photographers. They will offer new interpretations of the history of conflict photography and explore the role women have played within it.
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Biographies
Dr Pippa Oldfield
Dr Pippa Oldfield is Head of Programme at Impressions Gallery. A photography curator, academic and educator, she has over 20 years experience in the museums and galleries sector. She holds a PhD in Photography and Cultural Studies from the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham University and teaches on postgraduate programmes as Subject Specialist at Leeds Arts University.
Rena Effendi
Rena Effendi is an award-winning documentary photographer. She is a frequent contributor to the National Geographic magazine and has worked on assignments for the New Yorker, New York Times, TIME and many others. Effendi’s work has been shortlisted for the Prix Pictet award in 2011 and 2019. She has received many international awards, such as the Prince Claus Fund Award for Culture and Development, World Press Photo, Getty Images Editorial Grant, SONY World Photography awards, Overseas Press Club of America awards, Alexia Foundation Grant.
Newsha Tavakolian
Newsha Tavakolian is a photographer. She began working for the Iranian press at the age of 16, covering wars in Iraq and a range of social issues in her native Iran. Her work explores social experiences in her homeland and human conflicts close and near. Tavakolian has photographed female guerilla fighters in Iraqi Kurdistan, Syria and Colombia, prohibited Iranian female singers and the lives of people living under sanctions. She was the fifth laureate of the 2014 Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award and the principle laureate of the 2015 Prince Claus Award.
Alison Baskerville
Alison Baskerville is a documentary photographer and artist. As a former soldier, Alison has a rare insight into gender and conflict. Her work reflects on important contemporary issues such as gender equality, military occupation, female identity in the forces and the long-term consequences of armed conflict. She is the founder of the safety training movement ROAAAR and co-founded Powering the Matriarchy Together (P.M.T), Birmingham’s pioneering festival celebrating womxn and non-binary people.