Photos show a snapshot of the female perspective

A NEW exhibition is currently running at National Museum Cardiff which explores the role of women in photography, both as producers and subjects of images.

Women in Focus, at National Museum Cardiff ’s photography gallery, is a year-long exhibition which draws on works from Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales’ photographic collections.

The exhibition comprises two parts: Part One: Women Behind the Lens, which runs until November 11, celebrates the role and contribution of women throughout the history of photography, from the first pioneering woman photographers in Wales, Mary Dillwyn and Thereza Dillwyn Llewelyn, indirect objectification, an issue that has to emerging contemporary practitioners particular currency in today’s climate. including Chloe Dewe Mathews, Bieke Women in Focus has been Depoorter and Clémentine programmed to coincide with the Schneidermann. centenary of the Representation of the

Part Two: Women In Front of the Lens, People Act 1918, which gave some opening December 1 and running until women over the age of 30 the right to June 9, 2019, explores the representation vote for the first time. of women as subjects in photography, This Act marked a key moment in the from intimate and playful 19th-century fight for universal suffrage. staged family portraits by John Dillwyn The photographs in this exhibition are Llewelyn and Robert Thompson from a variety of disciplines but all come Crawshay, to later depictions that from unique, female perspectives, capture the innate beauty of beginning with early studies of nature womanhood. and landscape by Mary Dillwyn and

Part Two also seeks to examine how Thereza Dillwyn Llewelyn. photography has been used to misrepresent ■ Visit museum.wales for more information women through direct or

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