WOMEN STREET PHOTOGRAPHERS

women street photographers annual exhibition

APRIL 15-29. OPEN HOURS SCHEDULE IS BELOW THE FLYER

Guest judgeS:

MARINA PAULENKA (FOTOGRAFISKA MUSEUM), SANDRA STEVENSON (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Curated by Gulnara LYABIB Samoilova

Prints provided with the generous support of Digital Silver Imaging lab

GALLERY OPEN HOURS

*LOWER LEVEL GALLERY IS ACCESSIBLE BY STAIRS OR AN ELEVATOR*

QUESTIONS? CONTACT BY EMAIL hello@womenstreetphotographers.com

APRIL 12, 6-8PM EXHIBITION OPENING

APRIL 13 CLOSED FOR WSP FESTIVAL

APRIL 14 CLOSED FOR WSP FESTIVAL

APRIL 15 10AM-6PM

APRIL 16 10AM-6PM

APRIL 17 10AM-6PM

APRIL 18 10-6PM

APRIL 19 10-4PM

APRIL 20 10AM-6PM SATURDAY

APRIL 21 10AM-6PM SUNDAY

APRIL 22 10AM-6PM

APRIL 23 10-5PM

APRIL 24 10AM-6PM

APRIL 25 10-6PM

APRIL 26 10-4PM

APRIL 27 10-6PM SATURDAY

APRIL 28 10-4PM SUNDAY

APRIL 29 10-6PM LAST DAY

THE FINALISTS:

-Adrianne Ryan -Adrienne Hutchings -Agnes Burger -Alexandra Avlonitis -Amelia Sagone Rattew -Andrea Klausner -Anna Biret -Araceli Hernandez Chaparro -B Jane Levine -Betty Goh -Carol Dronsfield -Charlotte Stone -Chela Crinnion -Dagmara Dilling-Boer -Danielle L Goldstein -Dawn Eagleton -Deb Fong -Deborah Cole -Dorie Hagler -Elizabeth Cowle -Erica Reade -Eva Mallis -Fanja Hubers -Francesca Brecciaroli -Gillian Peckham -Hana Peskova -Hyun Suk Kim -Jean Ross -Jenna Mulhall-Brereton -Joan Piekny -Joan Morse -Joana Toro -Judith Krasinski -Kantaya New -Kasia Trojak -Katarzyna Urbanek -Kate Cash -Katherine Mendoza -Kathryn Mussallem -Katie Cofer -Kelly Beckta -Kirsten Murray -Komal Bedi Sohal -Latife Baudet -Leslie Fratkin -Lil Steinberg -Lisandra Alvarez -Liv Latricia Habel -Lou Gilbert -Mania De Praeter -Margarita Mavromichalis -Maria Plotnikova -Mariana Basurto -Marianthi Efthimiou -Marilyn Strauss -Maude Bardet -Melissa OShaughnessy -Missy Brinkmeyer -Nadine Taesler -Nance Fleming -Natalie Behring -Never Edit -Nina Papiorek -Ora Buerkli -Paula-Mia Gavrilita -Polly Rusyn -Puspita Chowdhury -Randy Matusow -Regula Tschumi -Sally Coggle -Sandra Jetton -Sandra Cattaneo Adorno -Sarah Simon -Scarlett Freund -Simona Galletti -Sofia Tsoumaki -Sonia Goydenko -Sonia Simbolo -Susana Sanchez -Susana Barbera -Toh Ee Siew -Tuna Angel -Ushi Grant -Virginia Hines -Zer Erdoğan

THE GRANT WINNERS ARE Dorie Hagler AND Lisandra Alvarez

AWARDS

– Group exhibition at the Artspace PS109 gallery, April 14-29

– Two US$1000 each Leica Women Foto Project Grants

– Publication on social media with nearly 150000 followers

– Dedicated page on www.womenstreetphotographers.com

GUEST JUDGES:

Marina Paulenka is the founding Director of Exhibitions at Fotografiska Berlin, where she is responsible for the museum’s exhibition strategy, artistic vision and affairs. Fotografiska is the contemporary museum for photography, arts and culture with the vision to provide one of the most beautiful stages that Berlin has to offer for both established artists and up-and-coming talents on the one hand, as well as the internationally acclaimed community of creatives in Berlin on the other.

Paulenka has 15 years of experience in artistic direction, curating, education, leadership, management and development in culture and art institutions and organisations, but also in her artistic practice.

She was the Artistic Director of UNSEEN Foundation and UNSEEN, an Amsterdam-based platform for contemporary photography that presents the latest developments in photography and amplifies the careers of boundary-pushing artists.

Before her role at Unseen, she worked as Director and Chief Curator of the Organ Vida International Photography Festival, the leading institution for contemporary photography in Croatia. Paulenka is a member of the Creative Committee at the Bristol Photo Festival, a guest curator at FUTURES Photography, and a keynote curator for the FORMAT21 International Photography Festival.

www.fotografiska.com/berlin/

Sandra M. Stevenson is an award-winning Writer / Visual Editor / Curator and the deputy director of photography at The Washington Post.

Prior to joining The Post, Sandra was an associate deputy director of photography at CNN, where she managed picture editors who curated the home screen, edited stories and newsletters, as well as special projects. Prior to that, she was an Assistant Editor who oversaw digital photo editors on the news desk, and worked on visual content for Race/Related and the Gender, in addition to exclusive projects such as "Overlooked" and “This Is 18.”

After receiving a BA in English from Syracuse University, Sandra spent four years working at NBC. From there, she became the program coordinator for the Black Filmmaker Foundation. During her time there, she held a deep commitment to helping people of color enter the film industry at various levels.

Sandra then returned to the news industry, by taking on a position at The Associated Press, where she spent eight years moving up from photo assistant to overseeing photo news coverage for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Sandra was a contributing writer in the book "Unseen: Unpublished Black History from The New York Times Photo Archives." She was the picture editor and co-curator on the book "This Is 18."

Current Governor on the board of the Overseas Press Club - America
Current Board member of Photo Start
Former Board president at the Bronx Documentary Center
Former Board member of the American Montessori Society

wsp CURATOR

Gulnara Lyabib Samoilova is a Tatar born American photographer, author, and the founder of Women Street Photographers. With over 40 years combined experience as a documentary and street photographer, artist, darkroom printer, photojournalist, and photo editor, Samoilova transformed the successful Instagram feed, @WomenStreetPhotographers, into a platform for women photographers from around the globe, launching a website, traveling exhibitions, artist residency, and photography book, Women Street Photographers (Prestel, 2021).

With her vast experience and expertise, Gulnara has organized and curated over 30 successful exhibitions in four continents, including the first Women Street Photographers and Leica Women Foto Project Summit in New York City. This three-day event featured group and solo exhibitions, grants, panel discussions, and photo walks, and showcased the work of 75 female photographers from 33 countries. In addition to her curatorial work, Gulnara is also an inspirational speaker, guest judge (Lens Culture, Lucie Photo Book Prize, UNESCO) and portfolio reviewer ( Arles Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Photo Nola).

A former Associated Press photojournalist, Gulnara received national and international awards for her iconic photographs of September 11, including first prize in the World Press Photo competition and nomination for the Pulitzer Prize by the AP. Gulnara’s work is a part of major collections such as the Museum of the City of New York, The New York Public Library, New York Historical Society, and Houston Museum of Fine Arts. She holds a certificate in creative practices from the International Center of Photography. Gulnara lives and works in New York City.

www.gulnara.com

@gulnara.samoilova

Women Street Photographers & leica women fot0 project FESTIVAL

artspace ps109, New York City,

APRIL 12-14, 2024

ABOUT WOMEN STREET PHOTOGRAPHERS

Founding in 2017 by award-winning photographer Gulnara Lyabib Samoilova, Women Street Photographers is an online and in-person community providing support and amplifying the work of for women artists from all races, ethnicities, creeds, generations, abilities, and sexual and gender identities around the world today.

Designed to expand commonly held notions of street photography by adopting an inclusive, expansive, non-traditional approach, Women Street Photographers provides platforms to showcase the work of amateur and professional photographers alike, including an Instagram feed, @WomenStreetPhotographers, website, traveling exhibitions, artist residency, inspirational film series, and photography book, Women Street Photographers (Prestel, 2021).

With 43 years combined experience as a documentary and street photographer, artist, darkroom printer, photojournalist, and photo editor for the Associated Press, Gulnara uses her experience and expertise to create visibility for women street photographers and empower them to follow their passion.

About the Leica Women Foto Project

The Leica Women Foto Project is a platform by Leica Camera USA that serves to empower the female perspective and its impact on today’s visual stories. Conceived in 2019, the initiative has evolved to offer cash awards, mentorship and business opportunities and Leica equipment to serve the female perspective in the world of photography. The shape of a story is reactive to the storyteller’s perspective, developing a narrative that too often is reflective of individual truths. The Leica Women Foto Project encourages diversity and inclusion in visual storytelling to amplify voices typically underrepresented in photography, discovering the breadth of shapes formed by a single story.

about Digital Silver Imaging

Digital Silver Imaging (DSI) is the only lab in the world producing the DSI Digital Silver Print®. This process allows for direct printing of B&W digital images on REAL silver gelatin, light sensitive photo paper. Digital Silver Imaging also crafts museum quality color pigment prints, as well as film & print digitization, art reproduction and print finishing and framing services. Digital Silver Imaging has printed, framed, and delivered prints for exhibitions through out the USA and internationally to the Boston MFA, Philadelphia Art Museum, Chicago Art Institute, Leica Camera USA, Paris Photo, and Photoville.

https://digitalsilverimaging.com

@digitalsilverimaging

ABOUT ARTSPACE PS109

http://www.artspace.org/our-places/el-barrio-s-artspace-ps109

El Barrio’s Artspace PS109 is a community-driven project which has transformed an abandoned public school building in East Harlem into an arts facility with 89 units of affordable live/work housing for artists and their families and 10,000 square feet of complementary space for arts organizations.

PS109 is an impressive building. Designed by Charles B.J. Snyder and completed in 1898, this structure is five stories tall with a steeply pitched roof. Exterior details include several copper-clad cupolas and a wealth of decorative terra cotta.

PS109 contains 89 units of affordable live/work housing for artists and their families with 3,000 square feet available for a resident gallery in addition to 10,000 square feet of non-residential space for arts and cultural organizations on the ground floor and lower level.

ABOUT ARTSPACE

http://www.artspace.org/

Artspace is non-profit organization that uses the tools of real estate development to create affordable, appropriate places where artists can live and work. They consistently develop these projects in ways that also support more stable, healthy communities anchored in existing assets. Because Artspace owns each of the projects it develops, they are able to ensure that they remain affordable and accessible to artists in perpetuity. Over the last three decades, Artspace has led an accelerating national movement of artist-led community transformation. With headquarters in Minneapolis and offices in Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Seattle and Washington D.C., Artspace is America’s leading developer of arts facilities and has served as a consultant to hundreds of communities and arts organizations nationwide.