Female
December 2020
 

Artists : Maria Coletsis, Lucy Kane, Gaia Adducchio, Federica Belli, LiAnn Grahm

 

United Kingdgom
Bournemouth
British artist whose practice revolves primarily around the female body and the notion of the self within the photographic.
United States
New York City
These photos are from an ongoing project that looks at portraiture in a more abstract, ambiguous, and raw lens. This body of work does not discriminate and is aimed at exploring all different types of bodies' shape, color, and gender. The two photos I've selected to submit aims to display femin...
Canada
Vancouver
With Staged Stills, I have used a common photocopying machine to create staged tableaux with found objects and myself as subject. Each image acts as a small theatre where unique portraits are revealed. I am drawing from a wide spectrum of sources including: mass media, mythology and popular culture....
Italy
Milan
Class 1998, Federica lives in Milan. Proclaimed youngest winner of Master of photography (the European contest hosted by Sky Arts) in 2018, she then proceeded to work alongside Oliviero Toscani at FABRICA, Benetton research center. Last summer she moved to New York to work as assistant of the portra...
Italy
Rome
In 2004 Gaia Adducchio studies film directing at FAMU, the National Film School of Prague. After numerous prizes for both her documentary and fictional works, she gains two MIBACT funding-awards: in 2009 for the realization of a documentary and in 2010 for the developing of a feature film. In 2013 s...

 

Special Award
December 2020
 

Artists : Franziska Ostermann, Diego Torres, Aodan, charlene galea, STEPHANIE CORNE

 

Malta
St Pauls Bay
During the last 8years I have been documenting the clubbing culture in places such as London, Barcelona and Malta where I have been living but as well when I travel I always look out for a clubbing adventure. I shoot on 35mm as prefer the intimacy analogue cameras create and the way the people I sho...
Germany
Kiel
Franziska Ostermann was born in 1992 in Kiel, Northern Germany. She got her master´s degree at the Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design. As a post-conceptual multimedia artist her main interests are contemporary photography and writing as well as their interaction. In her work she explores h...
United Kingdom
london
The ManWo Project The standards for the depiction of the female body in the canon of Western art are well known and have been largely consistent over time. My work tries to accompany the idea of pushing against the canonical ideal of women and their bodies as passive, contained, beautiful, non-di...
美國
Chicago
 I strive to explore, redefine and externalize femininity and “femaleness”. With highly detailed and intricate techniques, I endeavor to show the complicated tableaux with aggressiveness, gentleness, fragility, softness, toughness, struggles, emotions and pain within femininity and female gende...
United States
Brooklyn
Facemotions is a collection of portraits with a focus on the representation of the person's feelings onto the skin.Exhibited in New York, USA, Pondicherry, INDIA and Villequiers, FRANCE France born and New York based visual artist Stephanie Corne has had her paintings and multimedia work exhibite...

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Female
October 2020
 

Artists : Ethel Lilienfeld, Anica Archip, Georgie White Winter, Szofi Karolyfi, Morgan Markey

 

Belgium
Brussels
Ethel Lilienfeld's work, which questions notions of identity, femininity and intergenerational family connectivity, is shown through an autobiographical lens. The body occupies an important place in most of the depictions arranged by the artist. While she uses photography, sound installation or vide...
United Kingdom
london
'Women of the Market' is a photo-essay that documents the daily lives of the women that run the Vietnamese marketplace. I wanted to highlight the grit, strength and beauty of the women that provide for their families, while simultaneously working full time at the m...
United States
Brooklyn
For most of my life I've been uncomfortable being photographed and exposing a lot of skin - even at the beach. Like most females growing up in a big city, the unsolicited attention experienced left me feeling ashamed of my body. Now, as a mature woman I've been working to reclaim my self-i...
Norway
Oslo
Throughout history women has been objectified and mistreated. In the last century things started to change rapidly for the better. This image of being a woman became ever more complex if possible. The focus I’ve had in this project was the female role in the 21st century, my personal dilemma and the...
United Kingdom
Hereford
Artist Statement ‘Old Wives’ Tales Pregnancy Myth’ This series is a tongue in cheek look at Old Wives’ Tales and when I became pregnant the second time I decided I wanted to play with the idea of myths. Often regarded as irrational, illogical and absurd stories that over the passing of time have...

 

Special Award
October 2020
 

Artists : Stéphanie Barbetta, Cristina Cabrita, Yuan Tang, Samira Sabulis, Claudia Cantarini

 

United States
Washington DC
My project involves expressive art therapy to help women heal from traumatic experiences, accept transitional periods in their lives and further their emotional, cognitive, and social integration through music, photography and movement. I want my work to speak the desired language of women empo...
United Kingdom
london
Photography Project about Obsession, Pleasure and Femininity.  My aim is to create a scene that captures or creates an isolated moment of pleasure  These scenes are constructed through an exaggerated, surreal and bizarre  performance.
Unite States
New York City
After extensively exploring digital photography and video. From 2018, Yuan has begun to examine analog photography again – produce an ongoing diary series of private scenes - "Vague." She uses a medium format camera - Mamiya C330 twin lens to capture her idea. Each photo produced like a small intima...
Portugal
Lisboa
“The feminine nature is the protagonist of Cristina Cabrita's canvases, precisely because the woman has that particular sensitivity that can guide her and lead her to observe reality through the softness of the nuances, and it is perhaps by virtue of that same sensitivity that she bends to find the...
Switzerland
Geneva
The substance brute project focuses on what I call a "Traum-a", a place between the dream (Traum in german) and the trauma. Through unrefined poetry and installations, Stéphanie Barbetta questions genders as the result of social pressure.

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Female
September 2020
 

Artists : Aljohara, Thea Lång, Carla Pohl, Diane Bush, Lee Musgrave

 

USA
Portland
When I first viewed the painting L'Origine du monde I was amazed that it was dated 1866. I not only admired the artist for his daring to paint such a subject in such an erotic pose, but even more so for the title he assigned the image for The Origin of the World epitomizes how I too feel about the s...
USA
Las Vegas
I am a mature female artist, who uses photography, yarn, and anything that solves the visual challenges I face. During Covid -19 isolation, I have had time to look back at a long carreer in the visual arts, and continue to create new works, while valueing my 50 year output. 
Norway
Trondheim
A Woman Who is a series of close ups of my body. Where stretch marks, stomach rolls, marks after underwear and body hair, which are seen as the ugly part of the body, become something beautiful. These series of self portraits focus on what is like to be a woman today, being my own muse and be com...
Saudi Arabia
Jeddah
Series /pəˈfɔːm(ə)ns/: a silent story told, a statement, a performance. To lessen misunderstandings in this sensitive subject, let’s invoke the book of words, for, beyond words’ immediate denotations, they have connotative powers. The Process: Performance (Oxford Dictionary Online): 1. ‘An...
Germany
Berlin
Photography is transformation - the connection between yesterday and today, now and tomorrow. It heals the past and shows the moment in the now. It connects people and nature, connects woman and man, female and male. These are the basic principles of my work and I apply them to every assignment and...

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Female
August 2020
 

Artists : Iness Rychlik, Brian Cann, Chloe Massey, Nicola Hockley, Natalia Almonte

 

England
Frome
My love of pictures is deeply entwined with a love of people and is always an ode to great women. Throughout my work portraits of mothers, grandmothers and young women are intrinsic, for it is their stories I wish to tell, beautifully. This project is entitled Heroine, ‘A woman of distinguished cour...
uk
Norwich
I am an Interdisciplinary artist and designer. My practice is conceptual and wide ranging, often responding to a site, a situation or a place. Research is central to my creative process and I work across, constructed and printed textiles, photography, typography and printmaking. My practice is not r...
Germany
Waldenbuch
Blue chair figure study, from the series Alex and the blue chair, exploring body form and light in the interplay between a female model (Alex) and a shabby blue chair
United States
New York
Natalia Almonte was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She holds both an MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons and an MA in Art History and the Art Market: Modern and Contemporary Art from Christie’s Education. While at Christie’s, Almonte received the Alumni Association Award for Contemporary Art Co...
United Kingdom
london
I am a self-portrait photographer, who specializes in conceptual art. Although greatly influenced by historical drama, my work is deeply personal and symbolic in nature. I suffer from a hyper-sensitive skin condition. As a teenager, I would often attempt to cover it up; I resented being asked if I h...

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Female
July 2020
 

Artists : ANNA LAURA FESTA, Jackie Knapp, Ruocong Ma, Bianca Ceriani, Juliette Wayenberg, ZOSIA

 

Australia
Brisbane
Zosia Zoltkowski is an interdisciplinary Polish, first generation Australian artist; researching, creating and collaborating across mediums of painting, performance, installation, sculpture and video. Her site-specific executions aim to create a synergistic relationship between viewer, per...
United Kingdom
london
Transdisciplinary artist Ruocong Ma examines the contradiction and correlation of spiritual strength, human body, sexual representation, and feminism in our society, working on oil painting, performance, and sculpture. Ruocong's figurative women portrait painting is primarily concerned with celebrat...
USA
Berkeley
The female body is nothing short of a miracle, stronger than any of us were taught to think about ourselves. During the pandemic deep into the shelter in place order, I got to witness a home birth. These images were inspired by the water birth, the beauty of both the before and after. As the po...
Italia
roma
“Whenever the earth is covered with the fragrant, multi-colored flowers of spring, then from the thick darkness you will rise again, a marvelous prodigy for mortal men and gods. Homeric hymn to Demeter, vv. 401 – 403 Kore daughter of Demeter and Zeus spends half of the year underground in the...
United Kingdom
london
This picture represent to me a very delicate moment in a woman life: the pre-adolescence. The way Paola is looking at the camera makes me think that she is growing in self-awarness while her shy, younger sister looking at the floor reminds me of the difficulty of accepting that self....

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Special Award
July 2020
 

Artists : Daniela Mastronardi, Anna Filatova, Jessica Ethington, Rosie Lonsdale,Gwen Datyner

 

Нидерланды
Leeuwarden
These are the photos of my mom. Her life turned 360 when she got 50. She got divorced after 30 years of marriage, moved to another city 5000 km away from her hometown where she has spent all her life, changed jobs, changed people around, bought a funky orange bicycle. At that moment of her life she...
Italy
Cesena
The image of woman has always been defined by symbology and stereotypes which despite all the fights and the achievements are still present in the contemporary society. The search of a proper and collective identity guides this project, not to give us answers but to leave us with old and new ques...
United Kingdom
MAIDSTONE
Normally, my work consists of documenting other people, light underwater or just capturing mundane life. However, while at home in isloation, it made me try other ways of creating work. It forced me to photograph myself when I don't normally like to and I found it to be a very valuable exp...
United States
Provo
Look in the mirror and what do you see? I saw flaws. I saw blemishes in my skin. I saw parts of my body I wish would disappear.  As many people so often do, I struggled with my own self image and how the rest of the world looked at me. I wondered if they saw my insecurities. I didn’t want to...
United Kingdom
Acton
“50% of women say they always or often feel unsafe walking alone at night. 61% of women regularly take steps to avoid being sexually assaulted (YouGov, Mar 2019)” For women living in any city, travelling home late at night, whether after a late-night shift or night out, can be a daunting task and le...

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