In celebration of International Women’s Day, Amelia Byrnes will survey the life and work of Hungarian-born photographer, Kati Horna, and explore photography as documentary, as art and as a political tool. Amelia will discuss documentary photography in reference to Horna’s work as a photojournalist, with particular focus on her work documenting the lives of women…
Some fifty years after its inauguration, second-wave feminists celebrated the ‘first’ annual International (Working) Women’s Day, having casually dropped the word ‘working’ as if to efface the ceremony’s origins in the Second International. Whether intentional or not, the omission betrays longstanding tensions between, or the so-called ‘unhappy marriage’ of, feminism and Marxism. Says the feminist…