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In conjunction with the exhibition Secret Agent, a group exhibition composed from the viewpoint of feminist authorship in contemporary art practices, participants are invited to gather together to edit and create Wikipedia entries on women in history of photography.


The sub-heading - Women in Photography - is borrowed from the popular conference meeting held at Tate in November 2015. This edit-a-thon is inspired by artist's practices of redefining and revisiting histories at the Secret Agent travelling exhibition. It also follows up active edit-a-thon events to balance the male dominated authorship and subject matters on the Wikipedia. For example, Art+Feminism had over 1500 participants and created nearly 400 new pages in 2015.[1] However, we would like to open both a discussion on the process of making history, making such an endeavour available to a wider, general public. Our editorial hub at Guest Projects, London will facilitate participants in gaining a working understanding of wikipedia, further empowering them to create and expand our collective knowledge on the history of women in photography. It will also take advantage of the internet's freedom of access to invite participants from all over the world to make histories available to people. Subjects include biographical information on artists and their exhibition/publishing histories.


This event is held by Hemera Collective

Event details[edit]

  • Date:
    • On site: Saturday the 30th Jan 2016 from 2:00pm to 5:00pm
    • Remote: Saturday the 30th Jan 2016 from 0:00 to 24:00 (GMT+0)
  • Venue: Guest Projects Space, Sunbury House, 1 Andrews Road, London E8 4QL.
  • Cost: Free
  • Participants: The event is open to anyone who wishes to help preserve women’s history! No Wiki editing experience necessary; as needed, tutorials will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers. Female editors are particularly encouraged to attend. Can’t be there the whole time? No problem. Join us for as little or as long as you like. The first half an hour will be focused on introducing newbies to Wikipedia tenets and markup language.
  • Details: Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords so we can help you to create your own wiki account and work on it with ease. However, a limited number of public accounts and equipments will be prepared for accommodating drop-in visitors. Guest Projects is fully wheelchair accessible. Refreshments will be provided.
  • Registration: To register, please sign in via one of these three channels: Add your name to the guest list below; RSVP to curators@hemera-collective.com

Online participation[edit]

If you cannot make it to the Guest Projects in person but would still like to participate, you are more than welcome to do so remotely. Suggested articles appear below, or you may add or contribute to one of your choosing. So that we can count you as having participated, please add your contributions under the #Results section below. Note: There will not be a webinar aspect for online participants; simply log in and log your contributions below to have them "counted." And be sure to use the Twitter hashtag #WikiwithSecretAgent if you tweet about the event!

Direction[edit]

Alongside Regent’s Canal, Guest Projects at 1 Andrews Road E8 4QL, provides an alternative universe and playground for artists. It is located just off road from the Market Cafe. Please see the google map entry.

  • Nearest Tube: Bethnal Green
  • Nearest Overground: Hoxton
  • Buses: D6, 26, N26, 48, 55, N55, 106, 388, 236, 254, N253, and 394

Participants[edit]

Confirmed Wikipedians attending on site[edit]

Fangfei Chen (Hemera Collective)

Jaime Marie Davis (Hemera Collective)

Celine Bodin (London Photography Diary)

Dorothy Spenser (National Portrait Gallery)

Ksenia Belash (Visual Artist)

Laura Thompson (Hemera Collective)

Olga Lagun

Martina Horáková

Confirmed Wikipedians attending remotely[edit]

Kay Watson (Hemera Collective)

Ashley Lumb (Hemera Collective)

Dejuan Hunt

Karen Knorr (Visual Artist)

Flavia D'Annunzio

Potential Topics for Saturday the 30th Jan 2016[edit]

Participants are welcomed to contribute their own topics, according to your speciality. We have also prepared a list of potential topics to be created or expanded.

Examples of article[edit]

Artists[edit]

Voula Papaioannou
Violette Cornelius
Sarah Beddington
Zhe Chen
Shuxing Gu and other female photography in the Republican of China
Inri

Weiyu Niu
Else Ernestine Neuländer-Simon (also known as Yva, English version is needed)
Zhuang Xiao
Ling Yang
Marie Yates
Sima Yuan The Seventh Day, 2012
Jitka Hanzlová
Simone Nieweg
Erica Baum
Carolyn Scott

Giulia Pirelli Milano (1965, Photobook Vol.1 P. 224-225) 

Marjaana Kella

Ellen Thorbeche Peking Studies (1934) People in China(1935) Hong Kong Shanghai
Suzi Pilet
Marianne Pfaeltzer
Hélène Hoppenot Chine (1946)
Barbara Brandli Duraciones Visuales (1963)
Astrid Bergman (Swedish page exists, but English page needed) Chendru
Edith Rimkus Erntesommer (1954), Bullermax: Ein Fotobilderbuch (1964), Verliebt in Berlin (1958)
Rosângela Rennó (Portuguese page exists, but an English page is needed)
Lieko Shiga
Chino Otsuka
Yoshihiko Ueda
Noémie Goudal
Majida Khattari
Senayt Samuel
Wang Hsin Farewell, Orchid Island (1985)
Reineke Otten
Marie Hoeg

Institutions[edit]

Rich Women of Zurich Ltd. (gallery)
Pavilion, Leeds (gallery)

Exhibitions[edit]

Who's Afraid of Women Photographers? 1839-1945 (exhibition)

Spectrum Womens Photography Festival, 1988
She-Documentalists - Polish Women Photographers of the 20th Century

Festivals[edit]

Asian Women Photographers' Showcase

Conferences[edit]

Fast Forward: Women in Photography (conference)

Other resources[edit]

Resources: Editing Wikipedia[edit]

Tools and templates[edit]

Wikipedia Editing Tutorials[edit]

Wikipedia citations are done in-line with the text, and are automatically aggregated as footnotes at the bottom of pages. Citation templates are an easy way for beginners to begin inserting citations.

Copyright and Wikipedia[edit]

Do not copy-paste text from a website directly into Wikipedia. Paraphrasing and citation is necessary.

Most of Wikipedia's text and many of its images are co-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL).

Every image has a description page which indicates the license under which it is released or, if it is non-free, the rationale under which it is used.

Conflict of Interest[edit]

Result[edit]

Patrizia Savarese (Rome, 1953) is an Italian photographer.

She initially attended the faculty of Architecture in the 70s and graduated with a diploma in Interior Design,and later obtained a second diploma in Photography. She began working as a show business photographer, snapping the most famous international rock stars at concerts and tours in Europe.

In the 80s, known as one of the best rock photographers, she started working in the fashion and advertising worlds.

A research study on black and white nudes won a particular acclaim: she was one of the very first Italian photographers to concentrate on the male nude. This led to a series of TV interviews and in the most important photography magazines, as well as in newspapers and websites.

Today, Patrizia Saverese is considered one of the most original photographers in Italy. Winner of two recent prizes, throughout her career she has been invited to offer her photographs at various auctions, including high - profile fundraising events. She has been involved in two auctions for the Luc Montagnier Foundation in Montecarlo, attended by Prince Albert and Princess Stephanie, together with 50 of the most famous photographer in the world. Her photographs have entered the Fine Art circuit and gone under the hammer at Christie's and Sotheby's auction houses.

In the last few years, Teuco Guzzini commissioned Patrizia a research project based on the theme of water, for his company calendars. These dreamlike and refined images were featured in leading Italian broadsheet newspaper (the 2002 Teuco calendar was judged the best of the year). Amongst others, she accepted an invite from the Polizia di Stato (Italian State Police Force) to participate in the creation of their 2004 calendar, together with other major Italian photographers.

Denis Curti, critic and former director of the Fondazione Italiana della Fotografia wrote about her - " Patrizia places herself in the middle of the road between a hallucinatory, dreamlike state and the perception of another reality, always filtered by the delicate and fragile power of water and, naturally, by the consciousness of her extremely personal vision [2]". Roberto Kock of Agenzia Contrasto wrote – “ The principle characteristic of Patrizia’s work, other than a special sensitivity to light, is her constant creative dedication to the construction of images, to which she applies a planning methodology derived from her previous experience in the architectural field” . What often emerges from her photographs is the contrast between the artificial and the natural. This adds a new perception of reality which transports everyday objects to unreal situations.

Recently, Patrizia has taught at the IED and held a workshop at the Tuscan Photo Festival.  Since 2005 she has also restarted photographing show business artists. At the international event Orvieto Fotografia 2006 an untitled film of her photography was shown. In Italy she is represented by the Agenzia Contrasto, and in the USA by the Nile Tuzun Gallery in San Francisco (CA). 

Reference[edit]

  1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism
  2. ↑ "curricu". www.patriziasavarese.com. Retrieved 2016-01-30. 
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