Women In Motion spotlights women photographers in Paris

Born in 1948 in Baltimore, Maryland, Susan Meiselas is a documentary photographer based in New York.

_{Susan Meiselas during popular insurrection in Masaya, Nicaragua, September 1978}

_{©Courtesy Alain Dejean, Magnum Photos}

Meiselas is well-known for documenting human rights issues in Latin America, and her photographs are held in collections in North America and around the world. In 1992, she became a MacArthur Fellow; in 2015 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Most recently, she was awarded the 2019 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize.

Born in 1924 in Saint-Gingolph, Switzerland, Sabine Weiss took up photography at an early age. After a three-year apprenticeship in Geneva with Paul Boissonnas, she became assistant to Willy Maywald, a German fashion photographer based in Paris, in 1946. Her marriage to American painter Hugh Weiss in 1950 marked the beginning of her career as an independent photographer on the post-war arts scene.

In 1952, with the help of Robert Doisneau, she became one of the few women to be employed by the Rapho photo agency, and her work gained recognition in the United States. Weiss's photography placed her in France's ‘humanist’ school, which sought to connect public spaces with the human body. Her images show people going about their daily lives, work and thoughts. She passed away in Paris in 2021.

Born in Bulgaria in 1964, Liz Johnson Artur is a London-based photographer. Her work incorporates photography, film, and installations, centering on the strong bonds she has forged with subjects and viewers for more than 30 years. In recent years, Johnson Artur has held solo exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City and London's South London Gallery and participated in group exhibitions, notably at the Serpentine Galleries in London and the Berlin Biennale.

Her work is held in public and private collections in the United States and the United Kingdom, and The New York Times listed her monograph published by Bierke Verlag among the Best Photo Books of 2016. In fall 2021, she headlined a solo exhibition at FOAM in Amsterdam.

Born in France in 1941 and a New York City resident since the 1970s, Babette Mangolte is a filmmaker, photographer and artist. She has also published essays on filmmaking and photography. Mangolte's work is especially marked by the choreography and performances of Yvonne Rainer, Trisha Brown, Joan Jonas, Robert Morris, Lucinda Childs, Marina Abramović, Steve Paxton and Seventies-era experimental theater in New York.

Her latest solo efforts include a retrospective exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien (2017) and VOX centre de l'image contemporaine, Montreal (2013). Her artwork frequently features in international exhibitions, festivals, and film programs, including recently at Tate Modern, London; Migros Museum, Zürich; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; South London Gallery, London; and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.

Born in 1962 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Rosângela Rennó is based in Rio de Janeiro. Her work on photographs, objects and installations uncovers the many political aspects of photographic representation and understanding; she also explores the relationship between memory and forgetfulness by appropriating images from various sources such as flea markets, the Internet and institutional archives.

Forgotten and fragile photographic archives as well as 'dead files' have inspired Rennó to counter and reframe recurring narratives of ‘structural ignorance’ and the deliberate revisionism used to exclude large segments of the population, particularly in Brazil and other countries in the southern hemisphere. She also applies the same conceptual approach to producing videos and artists' books.