Women Alternative Photography Group

Celebrating women using alternative photography

Interview Series

The Women Alternative Photography Group interview series invites artists from around the globe to share insights into the concepts and creative process behind their photographic practice. This space is dedicated to championing women, trans, and non-binary artists and those from underrepresented groups using alternative photographic processes through in depth interviews that reveal hidden stories and new knowledge.

Once a month a new interview will be posted as part of the following interview series:

2025

Maria Kapajeva works in collaboration with individuals displaced by war, creating large‑scale cyanotypes that reflect the fluidity of borders

Artist Masha Pryven works with young people to challenge themes of identity, borders, and government documents

Artist Ania Ready shares the powerful story of Naomi Kaplan Warren, a Jewish woman from Poland who survived three concentration camps

Visual Storytelling in Cyan and Thread: Collaborating with Sapara Women of the Ecuadorian Amazon

Brooklyn based artist Galina Kurlat creates vivid lumen prints using hair, blood, and saliva

Polish artist Magda Kuca uses historic processes to visualise Slavic rituals and folklore

Experimentation, community and joy: How Miami based photographer Isabella Marie Garcia works with folks in the juvenile justice system

Sujata Setia invites audiences to break the silence surrounding domestic abuse through her intricately sliced photographs

Inspired by astrophotography artist Julia Bradshaw creates images informed by science, imagination, and play

2024

Artist Sonia Mangiapane uses optical modifiers to create vibrant images to investigate domesticated landscapes

Kari Varner creates images of Tyson chicken plants by growing algae

Canadian artist Ella Morton travels to the Arctic Circle to create sublime images that address climate change

Folkestone based artist Sapphire Goss uses obsolete objects and sustainable approaches to create works that speak to the materiality of photography

Visual artist Harini Krishnamurthy combines cyanotype and traditional hand painting techniques to showcase the ancient classical dance of Bharatanatyam

Artist Natali Bravo-Barbee creates memorials for those who have died from femicide in her home country of Argentina

Photographic artist Morgan Sears-Williams creates images in collaboration with one of Canada’s oldest surviving queer spaces

Indonesian photographer Vidhyasuri Utami uses alternative photography to create photo novels

Ukrainian artist Masha Weisberg creates work inspired by trauma induced dreams

2023

Photographic artist Megan Bent uses the chlorophyll printing process to challenge misconceptions surrounding illness and disability

Photographer Eleanor Oakes uses breast milk and tears to create portraits of motherhood

Brazilian visual artist Marilene Ribeiro burns her negatives to expose the violence that has been inflicted on Brazilian landscapes and cultural sites

Cara Jaye combines cyanotype, silkscreen, monoprint, and paint to address the climate crisis

Eugenie Flochel visualises the healing process of female survivors of domestic violence

Attempted kidnapping, migration and COVID-19. RemiJin Camping uses the photogravure process to tell a story of grief

Cendre creates empowering images inspired by homophobic attack in Bordeaux, France

Liz Harrington investigates the vulnerability of UK coastal beaches