How Photography Teaches Us to Live Now

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October 23-26, 2024
at Pérez Art Museum Miami
and across South Florida

Susan Meiselas teaching elementary school student, South Bronx, New York, 1972. Photograph by Community Resources Institute. Courtesy Susan Meiselas Studio.

The 2024 WOPHA Congress is co-presented by Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) and Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM).

Co-presented by
Official Hotel Partner
Lead support is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, Bechily – Hodes Family Foundation, Green Family Foundation, The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation at The Miami Foundation, and Miami Downtown Development Authority.

About the Organizer

Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded by Latinx art historian and curator Aldeide Delgado to research, promote, support, and educate on the role of those who identify as women and non-binary in photography. Having begun as a dynamic database showcasing the unique stories of women-identified Cuban photographers, WOPHA has expanded its geographic scope to include photographers around the globe. The organization is currently documenting the diverse artistic production of Latin American and Latinx communities, including photographers from Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and artists of Latin American descent living and working in the United States.

About the Congress

The WOPHA Congress is a groundbreaking photography conference, exhibition series, and creative convening held at the Pérez Art Museum Miami and virtually, with parallel activations taking place across South Florida. It aims to establish a critical space for photography by bringing together worldwide organizations of women photographers, art historians, theorists, and curators with a goal to enrich and more accurately represent the dynamic history of women photographers from the nineteenth century to the present day. This event showcases both seminal and emerging research and discourse in the field, encompassing national and international discussions on women and feminisms in the history of photography. Additionally, it serves as a platform to celebrate women and foster an unparalleled network for the international community of women in the photographic arts.

“PAMM is the perfect place to hold the WOPHA Congress, and we are proud to inaugurate this important conference with our dear friend and esteemed scholar Aldeide Delgado. Born from Delgado’s archive, the conference will bring together important voices in a discussion with art at its center.”

– Franklin Sirmans



PAMM Director

“Photography is an amazing medium for storytelling, self expression and commentary on the world around us. We are excited to help bring the Women Photographers International Congress to Miami later this year.”

– Victoria Rogers



Vice-President of Arts at Knight Foundation

“We are confident that this will be a watershed event, further inspiring women to share their unique talents through the power of photography.”

– Florencia Rotemberg



General Manager of the JW Marriott Marquis Miami

“The 2024 WOPHA Congress initiates discussions about women, photography, and pedagogy as a foundational step towards the establishment of a dedicated educational institution for the study of photographic practices, criticism, and historiography.”

– Aldeide Delgado



WOPHA Founder & Director

“WOPHA Congress is the perfect occasion to discuss how we can collapse the interlocking hierarchies of sexism, racism and regionalism through women's camera lenses.”

– Amy Rosenblum-Martín



Guest Assistant Curator at MoMA PS1

“This symposium, with the participation of leading scholars, curators, specialists, and artists will be a seminal event, putting forward new views and research on a generally neglected topic in canonical history of photography.”

– Idurre Alonso



Associate Curator at Getty Research Institute

“WOPHA Congress reúne de forma inédita a las figuras más relevantes del medio fotográfico y los feminismos a nivel mundial. Es un evento donde teóricas, artistas, fotógrafas, colectivos y activistas mujeres, se reunirán en dos días de intercambio, aprendizaje y reconocimiento.”

– Mane Adaro



Director and Editor of Atlas Magazine

“The premise of "Women, Photography, and Feminisms" is important and groundbreaking. The conference will foster and present research in relation to a range of important issues—from race, nation, and class to the complexity of feminism itself and its nuances and points of view.”

– Maurice Berger, Ph.D.



New York Times Art Critic at the Lens section

“Long neglected, the women that are the subject of Aldeide Delgado's initiative will be introduced to a new audience that ranges from professionals in the field to the general public, and their work will be celebrated in an international forum.”

– Carol Damian, Ph.D.



Art Historian

“Reaching across cultural barriers, the congress raises urgent contemporary questions about what it means to practice photography and to practice writing about photography from a feminist point of view as we enter the second decade of the 21st century.”

– Claire Raymond, Ph.D.



Lecturer and Art Historian

2024 WOPHA Congress Program

6:30pm

Opening Reception: Visual Epistolary Diaries

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7:30pm

Welcoming Dinner: Honoring Susan Meiselas

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2:00pm

WOPHA Assembly

MODULE 1: Technologies of Companionship

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6:00pm

Cocktail Reception: No Looking Back

MODULE 1: Technologies of Companionship

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8:30am

Workshop: WOPHA Photowalks 

MODULE 2: Collaborative Teaching and Learning

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11:30am

Group Portfolio Review Session

MODULE 2: Collaborative Teaching and Learning

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1:45pm

Networking Lunch

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3:00pm

Opening Remarks

MODULE 3: The Museum as a Teaching Laboratory

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3:20pm

Keynote: Amateurs, Artists, and Archives; Evolving Perspectives on Women, Photography and Education

MODULE 3: The Museum as a Teaching Laboratory

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3:35pm

Masterclass: For a Pedagogy of Gazes, Visualities, and Imaginaries

MODULE 4: Visual Pedagogies

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3:55pm

Break

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4:00pm

Conversation: Time Travel, Worldbuilding, and the Art of Friendship

MODULE 4: Visual Pedagogies

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4:30pm

Break

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4:35pm

Lecture: The Photography Care Matrix; Teaching Traditional and Experimental Photo-Techniques within Prison Environments, Residential Rehabs, and Alternative Schools

MODULE 4: Visual Pedagogies

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4:50pm

Break

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5:00pm

Panel Discussion Building a Miami Photographic Curriculum

MODULE 5: Situated Knowledge

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6:30pm

Special Performance

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6:45pm

Book Presentation: Collaboration; A Potential History of Photography

MODULE 6: Radical Readings

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10:30am

Breakfast & Exhibition Tour: Atlas of Imagined Ecologies; 2024 WOPHA Artists in Residence

MODULE 6: Radical Readings

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11:15am

Introduction

MODULE 7: Archipelagic Networks

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11:20am

Artist Lecture Meditations From the Threshold

MODULE 7: Archipelagic Networks

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11:35am

Panel Discussion: Caribbean Photography History

MODULE 7: Archipelagic Networks

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12:35pm

Networking Lunch

MODULE 7: Archipelagic Networks

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2:30pm

Interactive Lecture: La Memoria de las Frutas

MODULE 7: Archipelagic Networks

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3:00pm

Keynote Dissident Women: The Genre-Bending Nature of Japanese Women Photographers and the Potential of Photographic Education

MODULE 8: Questioning Photography History

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3:20pm

Conversation Camera Geologica: Photography, Ecology, and Materiality

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4:40pm

Break

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4:45pm

Lecture: Unseeing Photography; Introducing ‘Dark Room Girls’

MODULE 9: Teaching to Transgress

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5:00pm

Special Performance

MODULE 9: Teaching to Transgress

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5:20pm

Launching of the WOPHA Institute

MODULE 9: Teaching to Transgress

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5:30pm

Closing Remarks Photographers Committed to Memory

MODULE 9: Teaching to Transgress

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8:00pm

WOPHA Congress Party

MODULE 10: Corporeal Knowledge

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8:00am

Recovery Fitness Class: Power Flow

MODULE 10: Corporeal Knowledge

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10:30am

Performance: Foto Féminas Mobile Library

MODULE 10: Corporeal Knowledge

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10:00am

Exhibition: Walkthrough What They Saw; Historical PhotoBooks by Women Reading Room

MODULE 10: Corporeal Knowledge

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1:30pm

Opening Reception and Panel Discussion: Women Photographers – Shared Documentary Narratives

MODULE 10: Corporeal Knowledge

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6:00pm

Book Signing: Collaboration; A Potential History of Photography

MODULE 10: Corporeal Knowledge

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