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<![CDATA[ELIZABETH RANSOM - News]]>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:32:43 -0800Weebly<![CDATA[New WAPG Interview with Anne Eder]]>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:46:04 GMThttps://www.elizabethransom.com/news/new-wapg-interview-with-anne-eder

It was an absolute pleasure to interview Anne Eder for the first Women Alternative Photography Group interview of 2026.

Anne's images showcase large scale mythical creatures that she creates using objects found in nature. She weaves fiction and folklore into her visual narratives. These fantastical scenes come to life through the use of alternative photographic processes such as anthotypes.

You can now read the full interview over on the Women Alternative Photography Group website.

]]><![CDATA[Women of Photography Conference-a-thon]]>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:43:11 GMThttps://www.elizabethransom.com/news/women-of-photography-conference-a-thon

I am so excited to announce that I will be sharing my new research at the Women of Photography Conferenceathon this international Women's Day on March 8.

For this research I had the absolute honour of interviewing Natali Bravo-Barbee, Eugenie Flochel, and Sujata Setia. I will be sharing insights from these interviews along with their powerful projects that deal with themes of gender based violence, survival, and femicide.

Below I've included my abstract if anyone is interested in joining the conference. I present at 10:44-11:03pm (UTC). That's 2:38pm (PST) for those on the West Coast of America. The link for free tickets is in my bio.

Exposing Violence: Women Using Experimental Photography to Confront Gendered Violence

This paper analyses experimental photographic works addressing gender‑based violence, created either by survivors or by artists who foreground women’s oppression. Using methods such as cyanotype, surface interventions, and lumen printing, these works visualize women’s narratives and expose structures of violence. Drawing on feminist frameworks by Françoise Vergès and Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, the paper shows how alternative processes can challenge conventional representations of abuse and offer platforms for survivor voices. This research highlights case studies whose projects address femicide, domestic abuse, and other gender-based violence.

]]><![CDATA[PhD Viva]]>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 00:20:16 GMThttps://www.elizabethransom.com/news/phd-viva

Today I passed my PhD Viva!!! You can now call me Dr. Ransom.

Thank you to Helen Sear and Susan Collins for being incredibly kind and thoughtful external examiners and for all of your excellent questions.

Thank you to Anne Massey for being an excellent chair and coordinating the event.
And of course a massive, massive thank you to my supervisors Jean Wainwright and Anna Fox I honestly couldn't have done it without you.

It will take me some time to fully process everything but I am so grateful to have such a great viva experience.

]]><![CDATA[New WAPG Interview with Maria Kapajeva]]>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 00:18:23 GMThttps://www.elizabethransom.com/news/new-wapg-interview-with-maria-kapajeva

I am so excited for you to read this month's interview with Maria Kapajeva

Maria Kapajeva is an artist who works between the UK and Estonia, while exhibiting her works internationally. Through her artistic practice, Kapajeva looks at the identity questions of peoples being in-between or in-transition, often bringing peripheral stories to the visible centre. Kapajeva practice is multidisciplinary: she works with found and vernacular photographic images, video installations, textile and embroidery and participatory practices.

Head on over to the WAPG website to learn more about Maria's project "Fluid Borders"

]]><![CDATA[The Art of Experimentation Online Conference]]>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 00:16:08 GMThttps://www.elizabethransom.com/news/the-art-of-experimentation-online-conference5839934

Co-hosting "The Art of Experimentation Online Conference" with Sophie Sherwood from Folk House Darkroom is increasingly becoming one of the most meaningful aspects of running Women Alternative Photography Group.

This international community has grown into something so special and I absolutely love coming together with artists from all over the world to nerd out and celebrate alternative photographic processes.

I am always so blown away by the incredible research and practice that our international community is working on.

Massive thank you to everyone who joined us this weekend. Thank you to our inspiring presenters, and thank you to Sophie for co-hosting this event with me.

The recordings will go live on our YouTube channel later this week. Please sign up to the WAPG newsletter to be sent the link when it's ready.

List of Speakers:
Andréa Brächer
Natali Bravo-Barbee
Katie Eleanor
Tamsin Green
Rachel Guardiola
Cara Jaye
Harley Ngai Grieco
Anna Moore
Laura de Moxom
Joonhee Myung (Junos)
Riya Panwar
Caroline Roberts

]]><![CDATA[New WAPG Interview with Masha Weisberg]]>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 00:12:44 GMThttps://www.elizabethransom.com/news/new-wapg-interview-with-masha-weisberg

It is my absolute honour to introduce Masha Pryven for our November Women Alternative Photography Group Interview.

Masha is an artist, working primarily with photography. In her work, she explores the relationship between the public and the private, and she is interested in the forms of co-authorship, collaboration and collective performances. She works with different groups of people inviting them to become her co-authors.

In this month's interview Masha shares her fascinating project "Passport" which explores themes of nationality, identity and government documents.

Head over to the WAPG website to read the full interview.

]]><![CDATA[IN-BETWEEN - New exhibition at Wozownia Gallery in Poland]]>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 02:12:20 GMThttps://www.elizabethransom.com/news/in-between-new-exhibition-at-wozownia-gallery-in-poland

This month I will be exhibiting a selection of my works from my series 'Immigration Day' in the exhibition IN-BETWEEN alongside Maria Kapajeva, Ania Ready and Masha Pryven

IN-BETWEEN

Borders, migration and identity are constantly in our news, yet what do those stories ever tell us about real life aside from what is urgent and immediate. News and media are plagued by drama and false sincerity. These four contemporary artists have worked to bring new narratives to the burgeoning stories of migration. Two of them, Maria Kapajeva and Masha Pryven have worked collaboratively with groups of refugees and migrants. Then Elizabeth Ransom reflects on her own family experience of migration looking acutely at the very day they moved from one country to another. While the fourth artist, Ania Ready, materialises displacement and postwar migration through soil, collected from places central to a Polish Holocaust survivor.
All the artists use alternative photographic methods and/or hands-on analogue techniques to act as a cipher for the complexity of the stories they are relating, all four have been affected themselves by changing borders and migration. The layering of information in their practical methods is so different to that of photojournalism, less instant, more contemplative, perhaps in some ways more approachable. Certainly, the beauty in these images draws us in and in a slow, thoughtful manner unfolds their stories to us.

‍Artists: Maria Kapajeva (Estonia/UK), Masha Pryven (Ukraine/Germany), Elizabeth Ransom (UK/USA), Ania Ready (Poland/UK).

A Fast Forward exhibition in collaboration with Wozownia Art Gallery
Curated by Anna Fox

11.10. – 9.11.2025
Opening: 11.10.2025, 7pm
Wozownia Art Gallery, ul. Rabiańska 20, Toruń, Poland
The exhibition is part of the Vintage Photo Festival

]]><![CDATA[New WAPG Interview with Ania Ready]]>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 02:08:49 GMThttps://www.elizabethransom.com/news/new-wapg-interview-with-ania-ready

I had the wonderful opportunity to interview Ania Ready for the Women Alternative Photography Group interview series. In the series Life Lines artist Ania Ready had the unique opportunity to take a deep dive into archival material and interviews that led her to discover the important story of Naomi Warren Kaplan. This inspiring individual survived Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, and Bergen-Belsen during World War II. Naomi’s story is one of hope, survival, and resilience. Ania Ready uses the soil chromatography process to map the journey Naomi took from Poland to the United States as she seeked safety in new lands. This project was in collaboration with the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum and their partner, Holocaust Museum Houston.

You can read the full interview on the WAPG website

]]><![CDATA[New teaching position at CWU]]>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 02:03:02 GMThttps://www.elizabethransom.com/news/new-teaching-position-at-cwu

I am pleased to announce that on the 15 September 2025 I started my new role of Lecturer in Photography at Central Washington University. I am excited t0 contribute to the comprehensive photography program within the Department of Art and Design. I am particularly enthusiastic about guiding students through the hybridized analog and digital curriculum offered at CWU, and I look forward to contributing to an environment that encourages critical and creative engagement with the medium.

]]><![CDATA[Kids Cyanotype Workshop at Novelty Hill Farm]]>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 18:42:19 GMThttps://www.elizabethransom.com/news/kids-cyanotype-workshop-at-novelty-hill-farm

This weekend I had the pleasure of running a cyanotype workshop for 23 children ages Kindergarten to 5th grade at Novelty Hill Farm in Duvall for the Week on the Farm Hillside summer camp.

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