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Parasol Foundation Women in Photography

The Parasol Foundation Women in Photography project is a major international curatorial programme from the V&A, funded by Ms. Ruth Monicka Parasol and the Parasol Foundation Trust. The project encompasses a curatorial post and an ambitious programme of acquisitions, commissions, research, education, displays and events.

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Photography Centre browsing library – new photobooks from Australia

Acts of Resistance in Iran

Up Close and Personal: Photography and the Archive

Winners: V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography 2024

‘Acts of Resistance’: artist recommendations

New photography acquisition: Siân Davey

Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Protest

Laia Abril – radical feminist art in the Institution

New photography acquisition: Laura Aguilar

New photography acquisition: ‘Ghostwriter’ by Sheida Soleimani

Design and society

2023 Winners: V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography

Caring for our collections

Museum photography: Now and then

Shortlist 2023 / Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography

Hoda Afshar in conversation

Design and society

Tarrah Krajnak acquisition

Parasol Women in Photography

A white embroidered shirt against a black background

Joana Choumali in conversation

The Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project

Design and society

Looking for the matriarchive: a beginning

Isabel Agnes Cowper: Still Life, 1880