Las Fotos Project's Sister Circle presents Photography & Resistance
A film screening and discussion of the role of women of color in documenting U.S. social justice movements led by photographer and filmmaker Tara Pixley
Las Fotos Project's Sister Circle invites you to an evening of documentary film and conversation with photographer Tara Pixley on how the gaze of women of color have been instrumental in providing alternate views on U.S. social justice movements. In this 1.5-hour event, we will screen Tara Pixley’s short doc titled Rebel Vision: On Black Femme Photojournalism and share images by women and gender-expansive photojournalists documenting the Civil Rights Movement to now, considering how Maria Varela, Dee Dwyer, Vanessa Charlot, Sarahbeth Maney, and many others have visualized the ongoing struggle for racial justice and human rights. Tara Pixley will be in conversation with a special guest to discuss photography as a tool for the visual embodiment of women of color feminist understanding and the use of specific photographic practices as resistance.
About Tara PIxley
Tara Pixley, Ph.D. (b. 1983) is a queer, Jamaican-American photographer, filmmaker and media scholar based in Los Angeles, where she is an Associate Professor of Journalism at Loyola Marymount University. She is a 2022 Reynolds Journalism Fellow and 2022 Pulitzer Center Grantee, a 2021 IWMF NextGen Fellow, a 2020 awardee of the World Press Photo Solutions Visual Journalism Initiative and a 2016 Visiting Knight Fellow at Harvard University's Nieman Foundation for Journalism. Her writing and photography have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, Newsweek, Allure, HuffPost, Nieman Reports, ESPN Magazine, and the Black Scholar, among many others. Her filmic and photographic work intersect with her scholarship and advocacy, each addressing the intersectionality of race, gender, class, visual rhetoric, and the potential for visual media to reimagine marginalized communities. She is also a co-Founder and the current Director of Authority Collective — an organization dedicated to establishing equity in visual media.
Event Details
Thursday, November 10, 2022
7 pm - 8:30 pm
Las Fotos Project
2210 East Cesar E Chavez Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90033
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Masks are required.