“Becoming Sisters; Women Photography Collectives & Organizations” is an impactful 286-page photobook by editors Aldeide Delgado and Ana Clara Silva that centers around collaborative practices in photography from a feminist perspective. Presented alongside the 2021 WOPHA Congress in Miami, Florida, this publication works as a registry and collective manifesto of 40 international women and non-binary collectives and like-minded organizations and 98 women-identified and non-binary photographers reframing the dominant narratives of photography history. Featuring 120 stunning black and white and color photographic images and compelling statements from each contributing organization, the photobook is contextualized with a foreword by Marie Vickles and Anita Braham, and curatorial essay by WOPHA Founder and Curator, Aldeide Delgado.

Purchase price includes a one-year membership to Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) and directly supports WOPHA’s programs that highlight the historic and contemporary role of women in photography.

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The creation of collectives or communities of women photographers based on tenets of solidarity and networking has been a fundamental strategy used historically and through the present to highlight the contributions of women in the photographic arts. Since the initial publication of The Woman’s Eye by Anne Wilkes Tucker in 1973, Viewfinders: Black Women Photographers by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe in 1986, and the publication of A History of Women Photographers by Naomi Rosenblum in 1994, several—albeit scarce—books have demonstrated the important role women have played in the development of photography, often by pushing boundaries and defying social conventions. These groundbreaking books, primarily written by women, employ feminist analysis, postmodernism, and postcolonial criticism while surveying crucial debates of the twentieth and twenty-first century. However, upon reviewing these publications, there are still fertile areas for ongoing exploration. Thus far, the primary discourse has been focused on modern and contemporary women photographers as singular creative subjects, yet it is critical to produce a publication that centers, from a feminist perspective, collaborative practices in photography—by doing so, new scholarship would highlight the communally-shared experiences of women photographers. The concept of a directory and photobook is instrumental in this regard. Presented alongside the 2021 WOPHA Congress, this publication works as a registry and collective manifesto of forty international women and non-binary collectives and like-minded organizations and nearly one hundred women-identified and non-binary photographers doing extraordinary work to reframe the dominant narratives of photography history.