Putting Ourselves in the Picture is a publication that builds upon on a 2021 project, 'Fast Forward: Women in Photography' in which progressive-thinking organisations partnered to empower groups of refugee and migrant women to use photography in pertinent ways to tell stories about their own lives.
The compelling results of the first phase of the project were exhibited internationally and documented in a first volume of this book, co-published by Fast Forward and Trolley Books in 2022. The five partners for this project are Autograph, Creative Response, Women for Refugee Women, National Galleries of Scotland and Work Show Grow. All different expertise to the project and all have first-hand knowledge of working with marginalised communities, of promoting women in photography, of designing educational programmes, and in the case of the two gallery partners of disseminating high quality photography outputs such as publications and exhibitions. Each of the partners through their work in art, photography, social campaigning and education has made ground-breaking moves to create change to levels of equality and diversity in society.
Here Press, 248pp, 20cm x 26.5cm, illustrated hardback, 2026
