MEMORY AND GENDER IN PHOTOGRAPHY: CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT THE FIRST EXHIBITION OF CARIRI WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS
Photography. Genre. Memory. Feminisms. Exhibition of Women Photographers from Cariri.
From acting in the field of photography and observing the activities carried out in this
area in the Cariri Region, we have been sensitized to the little visibility of photographers
in the territory, as authors and curators of exhibitions and lecturer in courses, events,
collectives, projects and groups. What mobilizes us to think about the gender issues that
are inserted in being a photographer. It seems relevant - from the first Cariri Women
Photographer Exhibition - to reflect on the participation of women in art and
photography as a historical document and how our way of perceiving and dealing with
how the world in contemporary times is crossed by photography. Considering the image
from its documentary function and starting from the observation of gaps in the
registration and recognition of the work of women in photography, the general objective
of this master's research is to report the experience of the first Exhibition of Women
Photographers in Cariri as a space for reconstruction of memory of the photographic
production of artists from the territory. We then established as specific objectives: 1. To
carry out a bibliographic review about the relationship between photography and
memory and gender issues related to the theme; 2. Propose a systematization of the
works exhibited by themes and photographic genre; 3. Contribute to a mapping of the
production of women photographers; and 4. Organize a book about the experience of the
first Cariri Women Photographer Exhibition. In the trajectory of the research carried out
from 2018 to 2020, we based ourselves on feminist epistemologies and used as
procedures for collecting and analyzing data from exploratory interviews, applying an
online form and documentary research of the works exhibited at the 1st Exhibition of
Women Photographers in Cariri. The procedures used for data analysis were: the
categorization of genres and themes of the photographs in an electronic spreadsheet
elaborated from the categories proposed by Smith (2018) and content analysis of the
information collected through the interviews and forms.