I am so honored to be selected as one of the 2020 Female in Focus Awardees!
Female in Focus is an international award recognizing women’s extraordinary contribution to contemporary photography.
Female in Focus 2020 is exhibiting at El Barrio’s Artspace, New York, between 2-21 November 2020.
(This exhibition has been postponed due to COVID-19 and will be rescheduled for 2021)
View the full list of winning images here.
From 1854 Media and British Journal of Photography, the Female in Focus award was conceived in response to staggering gender imbalance in photography. An open call to female-identifying photographers around the world, it is an annual initiative to promote and reward women’s work in an industry that disproportionately favours men’s.
This year’s edition was judged by an international jury including Chiara Bardelli Nonino, Photo Editor of Vogue Italia and L’Uomo Vogue; Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, co-author of MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora, Kate Bubacz, Photo Director at BuzzFeed News and several other leading women in photography.
“The effects of photography on society are more far-reaching than ever before. Gender inequality in the industry is just the start of a good conversation about who gets to tell stories — and how.”
Kate Bubacz, Photo Director at BuzzFeed News and Female in Focus 2020 judge
From a pool of thousands of entries, the panel has selected two outstanding bodies of work and 20 single images to be exhibited at El Barrio’s Artspace, New York, between 2-21 November 2020. Collectively, the curation examines gender, race, sexuality and beyond, weaving delicate stories of beauty and pain; joy and injustice; resilience and reflection.
