It's 2024 and yet women photographers still aren't seeing equal representation in media. Even when the statistics show us men & women are photographers in equal numbers.
A lot of people think the best photographers will automatically rise to the top regardless of gender, race, or identity, but that's just not the case. We have a cultural bias towards white men in photography and it's not going to go away on its own.
In this video I talk about why representation matters and how we need to consciously and actively pursue it.
INDEX
0:10 - "Best" photos of 2023 features ZERO women
1:25 - What the statistics tell us about the number of women in photography
2:16 - Unscientific study: Google says these are the "greatest photographers"
2:58 - Those of us who educate, curate, and share photography need to actively pursue equal representation
3:11 - Case Study: Sabine Weiss vs Henri Cartier-Bresson
5:50 - Fixing the representation issue
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