Feminist Library

Ffotogallery launched the Feminist Library in October 2024, during Ffoto Cymru, our International Photography Festival, and it was a great success.

The Feminist Library is a space for listening, learning, discussion, and engagement through lectures and workshops by artists, writers and academics. These sessions, covering a range of topics within feminist discourse and celebrating diverse perspectives, are held in our library at Ffotogallery.

Since 2022, we have worked to represent women more equitably on our library shelves, especially Welsh women, working-class women, and women of colour. This effort was piloted at Ffoto Cymru, our biennial photography festival, where Dr Alix Beeston, Dr Natasha Hirst, and the Foto Feminas collective explored British photography—past and present—as a fundamentally feminist act.

We plan to make this series an annual series in our programming, inviting academics, writers, and artists who encourage public understanding and deeper engagement with photography. Without this discourse, the dialogue that leads to publication or artwork is greatly diminished.

Throughout Ffotogallery's programming, we will be pushing for our mission, which is understanding that photography has the power to affect and reflect social change. By building an inclusive grassroots network in Wales with an international impact, we will be at the heart of a welcoming, creative community engaged in contemporary conversations about photography’s role in shaping a more equitable and sustainable world.