On the 8 May 2024 I had the pleasure of presenting alongside Anna Fox at the AHRC IAA SE Regional Research with Impact Event in Brighton. This conference brought together researchers from all over the South East of England to share their incredible and inspiring projects. Anna and I talked about Fast Forward: Women in Photography particularly focusing on the research that has come out of the Manifesto and Manifesto Report. It was such a joy to meet up with colleagues from the University for the Creative Arts and meet fellow researchers doing such inspiring work.
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You are invited to the Women Alternative Photography Groups very first in-person event at the Brewery Tap Gallery UCA Project Space in Folkestone, UK.
This seminar and private view will bring together three incredible women using alternative photographic processes within their creative practice. Interrogating migration, psychogeography, and sustainable photographic processes this seminar will introduce the work of Founder of the London Alternative Photography Collective Melanie King, Artist and Curator Ky Lewis, and Director and Founder of WAPG Elizabeth Ransom. This seminar will be an opportunity to celebrate women working with experimental photographic methods in unique and innovative ways. This seminar coincides with the opening of the exhibition Homesick by Elizabeth Ransom at the Brewery Tap Gallery. Following the seminar there will be a private view with free drinks which you are invited to join to socialise with the WAPG community. To book your free tickets and to learn more click HERE. I am thrilled to announce that I will be exhibiting my Homesick series at the Brewery Tap Gallery UCA project space this May.
Join me in the seaside town of Folkestone from 28 May - 1 June for my very first solo exhibition!!! In the series, Homesick, I invited ten women and non-binary immigrants to share their stories and memories of homesickness in written form. They also provided a list of liquids that remind them of one of the places they have called home such as coffee, chicken broth, pisco sours, and kefir. I then soaked a roll of 35mm color film in the liquid for one hour for every day since they had returned to that location. This work was created in the middle of the global COVID-19 pandemic when countries had closed their borders and travel was at a standstill. This was the first time for many of the participants that they had not had the option to travel back home to see their families and loved ones. The experience of homesickness was exacerbated for many resulting in physical and emotional symptoms. For some participants, it had been many years since they returned home. The longer that the participant had been away the longer the film was left to soak in the liquid. The emulsion slowly deteriorating over time. The heat of the liquids warped and distorted the negatives resulting in brightly coloured destroyed rolls of film. I would love to invite you to the PV and WAPG seminar in Folkestone on the 28 May from 6-8pm. February 28 - March 16, 2024 | Wednesdays 6-8pm (Pacific Time) + Saturday (3/16) 10am-12pm (Pacific Time)
Join Elizabeth Ransom this winter as the Photographic Center Northwest continues their Conversations on Photography series to help create community and a forum for critical discussion of contemporary photography. Over this four-part series, artist and educator Elizabeth Ranson will introduce participants to contemporary issues facing women in photography today. With guest speakers from leading global organizations on women in photography, seminars, case studies, lectures, and panel discussions, this workshop will celebrate the inspiring work of women working with photography. You will take a closer look at some of the leading artists who are impacting the art world with their thought-provoking work, as well as challenge antiquated ideals of photography. This series will also explore the implications of the patriarchy on women photographers, and critically analyze photographic histories from a global perspective. Sign up for the Women Behind the Camera Workshop HERE Untitled 1999 from the series Country Girls © Anna Fox & Alison Goldfrapp courtesy of Centre for British Photography, London On the 26 October 2023 Elizabeth Ransom joined Charan Singh, Bahareh Akbarisfa, Mårten Lange, and Anna Linderstam in the "Meet the Photographers Debate and Panel Discussion"
This lively gathering brought together some of the leading artists who are working at the forefront of contemporary photographic practice. This event brings together a range of speakers across photographic disciplines responding to and reflecting upon the work and themes of Raising the Roof. The panel was chaired by Anna Fox, Professor of Photography at UCA Farnham. Elizabeth Ransom is currently exhibiting three pieces from her series "Homesick" in the "Raising the Roof" exhibition at The Lightbox Gallery and Museum in Woking.
This exhibition celebrates 13 years of the ground-breaking international MFA Photography course at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) in Farnham. This historical survey show features important graduates from the course, including contemporary photographers Anna Linderstam, Mårten Lange, and Charan Singh, who are all now exhibiting and published photographers. UCA’s MFA Photography course is one of the only 2-year full-time post-graduate photography courses in the UK and has launched the careers of extraordinary artists who have contributed to the development of photography worldwide. The exhibition is open from 21 October 2023 – 7 January 2024. For more information please visit The Lightbox website HERE. From 14 - 20 August 2023 Elizabeth Ransom was invited to be the artist in residence at The Verdancy Project in Troutdale Oregon. This residency is located on a beautiful property where artists are invited to explore the land, relax, and create. During her time at the residency, there was a heatwave with temperatures of 108 degrees Fahrenheit. In response to the wildfires happening in the PNW and the significant heat wave, Elizabeth made site-specific cyanotypes that she toned using plants found on the property. You can find out more about her process on her Instagram @elizabethransom
On 2 August Elizabeth Ransom joined the Kinship Photography Collective for an in-depth discussion on the significance of place. We explored how alternative forms of photography can be used to navigate stories of global movement and migration.
Based between the Pacific Northwest and the South of England artist, researcher, and educator Elizabeth Ransom draws from her own personal experience of migration to visualize the complex and individual understanding of transnationality. From homesickness to place attachment Ransom uses alternative photographic processes such as cyanotype, film soup, and soil chromatography to investigate the everyday lived experiences of those who have their roots in multiple locations. Reflecting on themes of displacement, memory, rootedness, and belonging particularly from the perspective of migrant women Ransom takes us through three of her most recent bodies of work Immigration Day (2019), The Woods (2021-2022), and Homesick (2021-2023). Ransom is also the founder and director of Women Alternative Photography Group a feminist research project celebrating women, non-binary, and LGBTQIA+ artists from all backgrounds working with alternative photographic processes. Ransom introduces the ongoing interview series and some of the work she is doing to advocate for women working with analog photography. Find out more HERE. Juror - Chase the light International Open Call
Elizabeth Ransom has been invited to act as one of the esteemed Jurors for the Chase the Light international open call for the Photographic Center Northwest. Chase The Light is Photographic Center Northwest’s (PCNW) annual summer fundraising and friend-raising event celebrating photography and community. It kicks off with a 48-hour photo weekend on June 10th and 11th, where people around the globe make photographs on the same weekend. Every participant who submits will have their work reviewed by industry professionals and is guaranteed to have one photograph selected for inclusion in a pop-up exhibition and print sale on June 17th. Find out more HERE. A Conversation with Elizabeth Ransom and Shaima Ayoub - Tasweer 2023 Biennial
14 May 2023 Online As part of a series of live, online conversations in the final week of Tasweer 2023, Shaima Ayoub has drawn together a constellation of talented and dedicated contributors to the cultural life of photography. In this conversation, Founder and Director of Women Alternative Photography Group (WAPG) - Elizabeth Ransom – describes her life and creative journey and the imperatives of creating cultural narratives in photography that take account of the diversity of its practices, including the profound impact of migration upon the visual stories of photography. Learn more HERE |
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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