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7 March 2024

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16 February - 1 May 2024

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6 February - 31 March 2024

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4 March - 5 March 2024

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Is Anybody Listening? Symposium: Commissioning and Collecting Socially Engaged Photography

29 February 2024

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15 February 2024

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18 January 2024

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18 January - 31 March 2024

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Tree Walks Of Sefton Park with Andrea Ku

21 January 2024

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31 January 2024

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Shift Liverpool Open Meeting

6 February 2024

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8 February 2024

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17 February 2024

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End of Empire: artist talk and discussion

22 February 2024

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24 February 2024

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Local ecology in the post-industrial era: open discussion

14 March 2024

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Waterlands: creative writing workshop

23 March 2024

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16 March 2024

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Erosion: panel discussion

9 March 2024

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Waterlands: an evening of poetry and photographs

23 March 2024

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27 March - 28 March 2024

Voices of Nature: Interactive Performances

28 March 2024

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27 February 2024

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18 January - 31 March 2024

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1 February 2023

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13 December 2023

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23 November 2023

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6 November - 5 February 2024

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30 November 2023

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17 November - 17 December 2023

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18 November 2023

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14 October 2023

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26 October - 11 April 2024

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Critique Surgery for Socially Engaged Photographers

6 November 2023

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Deeds Not Words: panel discussion

12 October 2023

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29 September - 23 December 2023

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19 October 2023

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Exhibition Launch: A Place of Our Own

28 September 2023

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From the series Photoworks Photography, Art Culture_Issue 22: Women ©Photoworks, 2015.
From the series Photoworks Photography, Art Culture_Issue 22: Women ©Photoworks, 2015.
From the series Photoworks Photography, Art Culture_Issue 22: Women ©Photoworks, 2015.
From the series Photoworks Photography, Art Culture_Issue 22: Women ©Photoworks, 2015.

Photoworks, Issue 22

Photoworks Photography, Art, Culture_Issue 22: Women- £20

Issue 22 of Photoworks Annual looks at women and their roles in photography. It draws out thematic relationships between women and photography, looks at women from all different ages and backgrounds and includes some of the issues that women face in today’s society. It also talks about the use of photography in the media. Some of the contributors in this book include, Lucy-Anne Holmes, Grafik Magazine’s Angharad Lewis, Harriet Riches and many more.

One of the contributing artists in this issue is Marianna Rothen. She is based in New York and has had her work displayed in a number of exhibitions including 2016 – Salon Zurcher Photo, New York, and 2016 – Photo London, London, UK. Marianna Rothen originally started out as a model when she was 15, during this time she travelled and took pictures as she did so. After, Rothen thought that she wanted to become a fashion photographer. She told AnOther magazine “In the beginning I thought I wanted to be a fashion photographer…but then I realised that the best images I took were the ones I’d got by myself, working with my own ideas.”

As well as having various exhibitions, Marianna Rothen also has her own instagram page in which she post her own work in an attempt to promote herself further. She posts photos that show typical women’s body image. On top of this, Rothen also has her own website where she posts her past and future exhibitions dates and locations.

In this book Rothen’s photos capture what it is like to be a women in this modern era. She has managed to capture how women are expected to be. With the continual growth in social media women are exposed to the unrealistic expectations of how women should be. Women are constantly reminded of the ‘perfect body’ as they see celebrities with perfectly constructed Breasts, full lips, long hair and fluttery eyelashes, when in reality they have spend thousands of pounds on surgery and extensions. This would mean that women are idolising and aspiring to be something that isn’t real.

Photoworks issue 22, addresses the current fashion for fakery and allows women to understand that they do not need to conform to the fake expectations set and created by the media.

Photoworks Photography, Art, Culture_Issue 22: Women is available in our shop for £20.

Written by Amy Williamson

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