Women Photograph and Makers Yard exhibit works from 26 global women and non-binary photographers

The exhibition aims to celebrate unique perspectives from both acclaimed and emerging photographers.

Date
28 June 2023

Moon is a new exhibition from the non-profit organisation Women Photograph and Makers Yard, an artist-run, grassroots communication project space in Frome, Somerset. Opening today, 28 June, the exhibition features 26 women and non-binary photographers from across the globe. It is part of Photo|Frome, a photography festival throughout the small rural town of photography exhibitions, workshops, talks and events.

Specifically, the Moon exhibition is one that “celebrates the unique perspectives and cultural narratives from a diverse group of both internationally acclaimed and emerging photographers”, a press release explains. Throughout the exhibition, you’ll discover an immense range of work on display; with intimate portraits, surreal staged shots and images from wider documentary projects. Featured are shots from Charlotte Yonga’s photographic exploration of love Naam Na La, Lydia Garnett’s series on Butch style, and Lydia Metral’s portraits of queer individuals, including many others like Arielle Bobb-Willis, Christina Stohn, Eva O’Leary, Jane Stockdale, Laura Pannack and Yumna Al-Arashi.

GalleryMoon Exhibition (Copyright © Women Photograph & Makers Yard, 2023)

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Eva O'Leary Exhibition Poster

At its core, Moon aims both to tap into the festival's overall theme of “decolonising environment on a curatorial level” and to represent the mission of Women Photograph; “to shift the makeup of the photojournalism community and ensure that our industry’s chief storytellers are as diverse as the communities they hope to represent”.

The Women Photograph non-profit launched in 2017 to “elevate the voices of women and non-binary visual journalists”. It now exists as a private database which includes 1,400 independent documentary photographers across over 100 countries. It offers project grants, a year-long mentorship programme, an annual skills-building workshop, and has artist takeovers of its Instagram account of nearly 200 thousand followers – offering a vital platform to emerging photographers and documentarians.

The exhibition is running from now until 7 July 2023.

GalleryMoon Exhibition (Copyright © Women Photograph & Makers Yard, 2023)

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Charlotte Yonga

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Lydia Garnett

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Lydia Metral

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Yumna Al-Arashi

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Lauren Bamford

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Laura Pannack

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Judith Erwes

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Sophie Green

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Tamara Abdul Hadi

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Celia D. Luna

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Jesse Mireles

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Arielle Bobb-Willis

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Amanda Lopez: Exhibition Poster

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