On International Women’s Day 2023 Fixation is proud to host at the Frontline Club a panel of photographers from Women Photograph collective for the launch of their first book What We See | Women & nonbinary perspectives through the lens. 

From documenting major events such as 9/11 to capturing serially misrepresented communities, this book presents a revisionist contemporary history: pore over 50 years of history in 100 photographs. Each image is accompanied by 200 words from the photographer about the experience and the subject, offering fresh insights and a much-needed perspective.

Our panel includes:

Citlali Fabián (Mexico, 1988) is a Yalalteca, a Mexican indigenous documentary photographer. She uses photography to explore ways of addressing identity and its connections with territory, migration, and community bonds. Citlali is a 2020 Visura mentee, Magnum fellow, England Art Council Grantee, National Geographic Society explorer, a National Geographic Society Covid-19 Emergency Fund Grantee, and 2023 World Press Photo Contest jury member.

Sara Ickow is the Senior Manager of Exhibitions and Collections at the International Center of Photography and manages exhibitions and special projects for Women Photograph. She co-curated the book, Women Photograph: What We See to be released March 2023. Previously, she worked as a curatorial assistant and collections manager with the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. She holds an MA in art history from NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts.

Susannah Ireland is a London-based freelance photojournalist who has spent the past 16 years working within the the UK and internationally for various publications including Agence France Presse, The New York Times, NBC News and Ten Speed Press

Suzanne Plunkett is the the UK and Ireland Chief Photographer for Reuters. In the industry for 30 years, she has been a staff photographer at Reuters, a senior photographer at Bloomberg and a chief photographer at the Associated Press. At the AP, she took a well known 9/11 photograph, and went on to become the agency’s Indonesia photo chief, managing a team of five in Jakarta before and after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.

Moderated by Daniella Zalcman a Vietnamese-American documentary photographer based in New Orleans and the founder of Women Photograph. She has been a photojournalist for 17 years, and got her start as a tabloid photographer in New York when she was 19. Daniella is a 2021 Catchlight Fellow, a multiple grantee of the National Geographic Society and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a fellow with the International Women’s Media Foundation. Her work tends to focus on the legacies of western colonization, from the rise of homophobia in East Africa to the forced assimilation education of Indigenous children in North America.

Tickets are booked via eventbrite

£15 General Admission
£10 Student rate
£5 Frontline Club Members

Event organised in partnership with Frontline Club

Women Photograph is a non-profit that launched in 2017 to elevate the voices of women and nonbinary visual journalists. The private database includes more than 1,400 independent documentary photographers based in 100+ countries and is available privately to any commissioning editor or organization. Women Photograph also operates an annual series of project grants, a year-long mentorship program, an annual skills-building workshop, and collects data on hiring and publishing statistics in the visual media industry.
www.womenphotograph.com