Exposing Violence: Women Using Experimental Photography to Confront Gendered Violence
Presentation Type
Event
Start Date
8-3-2026 10:38 PM
Description
This paper analyses experimental photographic works addressing gender‑based violence, created either by survivors or by artists who foreground women’s oppression. Using methods such as cyanotype, surface interventions, and lumen printing, these works visualize women’s narratives and expose structures of violence. Drawing on feminist frameworks by Françoise Vergès and Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, the paper shows how alternative processes can challenge conventional representations of abuse and offer platforms for survivor voices. This research highlights case studies whose projects address femicide, domestic abuse, and other gender-based violence.
Elizabeth Ransom is an artist, researcher, and curator based between the Pacific Northwest and the south of England. She founded the Women Alternative Photography Group, a feminist research project celebrating women, trans, and non‑binary artists working with alternative photographic processes. She lectures in photography at Central Washington University and teaches at institutions in the U.K. and U.S., with research focused on migration, homesickness, and transnationality.
Relational Format
Conference proceeding
Recommended Citation
Ransom, Elizabeth, "Exposing Violence: Women Using Experimental Photography to Confront Gendered Violence" (2026). Women of Photography: A 24-Hour Conference-a-thon Celebrating International Women’s Day. 55.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/womenofphotography/2026/schedule/55
Exposing Violence: Women Using Experimental Photography to Confront Gendered Violence
This paper analyses experimental photographic works addressing gender‑based violence, created either by survivors or by artists who foreground women’s oppression. Using methods such as cyanotype, surface interventions, and lumen printing, these works visualize women’s narratives and expose structures of violence. Drawing on feminist frameworks by Françoise Vergès and Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, the paper shows how alternative processes can challenge conventional representations of abuse and offer platforms for survivor voices. This research highlights case studies whose projects address femicide, domestic abuse, and other gender-based violence.
Elizabeth Ransom is an artist, researcher, and curator based between the Pacific Northwest and the south of England. She founded the Women Alternative Photography Group, a feminist research project celebrating women, trans, and non‑binary artists working with alternative photographic processes. She lectures in photography at Central Washington University and teaches at institutions in the U.K. and U.S., with research focused on migration, homesickness, and transnationality.