Arriving at the House of Commons in force, Wednesday 1st February 2012 saw a brigade of well-informed and well-heeled women gather to view award-winning documentary Miss Representation and to debate the under-representation of women in positions of power. Guests at the All Walks screening of Miss Representation in the House of Commons photographer Annabel StaffDirected and narrated [...]
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Actress Ashley Judd wins feminist plaudits for articulate response to ‘Puffy-Face-gate’
The face that launched a thousand rumours How many of us have been in the position where we’ve felt like we had to make excuses for our appearance? In my opinion, it takes a pretty confident individual to leave the house feeling far from their best and just not care what anyone might think about [...]
Interview: Samantha Donnelly on her Exhibition ‘Contour States’
Samantha Donnelly (centre) at the opening of her exhibition “Contour States” at The Cornerhouse, Manchester AW: The exhibition literature notes that your work is “concerned with the powerful effects of media imagery on the individual, and in particular with how the portrayal of women in the media shapes and defines them”. How do you think [...]