On behalf of MAI, Ulfsdotter meets ceramic artist Annika Svensson to discuss the context of her career as a craftwoman.
Boel Ulfsdotter
Boel Ulfsdotter is a Reader in Film and Media Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Gothenburg University in Sweden. Her research is rooted in narrative and aesthetic perspectives on female subjectivity and fashion in visual culture, particularly in documentaries, exhibitions, and television. She’s recently published her article, ‘Genius and Taste: Sara Danius’ Couture Gowns as Extended Power-dressing’ in the International Journal of Fashion Studies. Boel’s forthcoming book, Documenting Fashion, co-edited with Elena Caoduro, will be published by Edinburgh University Press. Boel is a formally trained dressmaker who works as a free-lancing fashion and visual arts critic.
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey