   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.
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 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"  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  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. |
Elizabeth RansomPhd Candidate at UCA, Instructor at Western Washington University and Photographic Center Northwest, and Visual Artist working with Alternative Photographic Practices. Archives
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