The sixth Fast Forward: Women in Photography conference
Beyond The Canon: Exhibiting, Curating and Collecting Photography by Women
10-11.10.2025
Centre of Contemporary Art "Znaki Czasu" in Torun, Wały Generała Władysława Sikorskiego 13, Toruń
The event will be held in English
Free admission
10.10.2025 Friday
9:00 - 9:10 Welcome by Katarzyna Gębarowska and Anna Fox
9:10 - 10:10 Key Note by Marie Robert, The Head Curator of Photography, Musée d’Orsay
Panel One: Herstories renewed
10:10 - 10:15 Introduction to the Panel One
10:15 - 10:35 Marta Ziętkiewicz: Women about Women: Female Art Historians and Establishing Her Stories within Polish History of Photography
10:35 - 10:55 Catalina Pérez Meléndez: Cataloguing the canon: the public life of photobook production by women in Mexican university libraries
10:55 - 11:15 Alexandra Moschovi: Reframing Herstories: Institutionalizing Women’s Photographies in Greece
11:15 - 11:35 Alexandra Gow: Representing Women and Non-Binary People in the Photography Collection at National Galleries Scotland
11:35 - 12:00 Panel One Discussion
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
Panel Two: Reclaiming the bigger picture
13:00 - 13:05 Introduction to the Panel Two
13:05 - 13:25 Clare Freestone: Reclaiming Yevonde
13:25 - 13:45 Federica Muzzarelli: Re-writing and valorizing the work of Italian Feminist Photographers. The case of Wanda and Marion Wulz in the Alinari Archive of Florence
13:45 - 14:05 Linda Bertelli: The future perfect as the time of images: Archival and memory practices for the photographs of Rivolta.Femminile
14:05 - 14:25 Claudia Holgado Chacon: Re-signifying the history of Julia Chambi López: the first Andean-Peruvian photographer
14:25 - 14:50 Panel Two Discussion
15:00 - 16:00 An exhibition opening at the University Museum
Panel Three: Collaborative Adventures
16:00 - 16:05 Introduction to the Panel Three
16:05 - 16:25 Małgorzata Geron: Women Talk About Women: Rita Sacchetto Through Madame d’Ora’s Camera Lens
16:25 - 16:45 Sonja Thomsen & Meg Jackson Fox: Between Archive and Inheritance: Collaborative Approaches to Recovering Hazel Larsen Archer's Photographic Legacy
16:45 - 17:05 Candice Jansen, Cynthia Mavuso & Gille De Vlieg: DarkroomGirls VI: ‘Gille De Vlieg, Portraits of Driefontein’
17:05 - 17:25 Lesly Deschler Canossi: Preserving Women's Photographic Legacy: The Women's Studio Workshop's Feminist Ethics of Care in Building Alternative Archives Through Photobooks
17:25 - 17:50 Panel Three Discussion
18:00 - Opening of the exhibition “Znaki Czasu” at Centre of Conemporary Art Toruń
20:00 - Dinner at the Hotel Nicolaus
11.10.2025 Saturday
Panel Four: Curatorial Dilemmas
10:00 - 10:05 Introduction to the Panel Four
10:05 - 10:25 Xiyue Yan: Kanojotachi: Japanese Female Curators and Feminist Solidarity since the 1990s
10:25 - 10:45 Susana Lourenço Marques: What they saw / What we see. Women photographers in Portugal (1860–1920)
10:45 - 11:05 Jenny Brownrigg: Curatorial dilemmas: How to shape the differing narratives of 20th century women social documentary photographers in Scotland through exhibition making as a research tool
11:05 - 11:25 Baiba Tetere: Rūta Ināra Sniķeris and the Representation of Latvian Women Photographers in the USA During the 1990s
11:25 - 11:50 Panel Four Discussion
11:50 - 12:00 Break
12:00 - 13:00 Key Note by Val Williams, Professor of the History and Culture of Photography,
London College of Communication, University of the Arts London
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
Panel Five: Troubling the archive
14:00 - 14:05 Introduction to the Panel Five
14:05 - 14:25 Charlene Heath: Archiving the Unruly: Institutional Stewardship of Women’s Photographic Work
14:25 - 14:45 Utah Hanusek: The loss of the artwork meaning. A case study of the research and conservation and preservation of one of the Zofia Rydet's experimental photographic cycle – ‘Transformations’
14:45 - 15:05 Nelly Ating: Behind Bars and in Front of the Camera: Winnie Mandela’s Photographs in Public
15:05 - 15:25 Katarzyna Gębarowska
15:25 - 15:50 Panel Five Discussion
15:50 - 16:00 Break
Panel Six: Women Empower Women
16:00 - 16:05 Introduction to the Panel Six
16:05 - 16:25 Sigrid Lien: Listening to the voices of the past: The transformative potential of a forgotten photography collection
16:25 - 16:45 Raffaella Berna: Exhibiting and Promoting Italian Women’s Photography: The Donata Pizzi Collection
16:45 - 17:05 Antonina Gugała: A good profession for a woman. Celina Osiecka and her Photography Studio
17:05 - 17:25 Liana Ivete Žilde: Material and Collaborative Histories: Reexamining the Archive of Latvian photographer Ina Stūre
17:25 - 17:50 Panel Six Discussion
18:00 - Opening of an exhibition at the District Museum
19:00 - Opening of an exhibition at Wozownia Gallery