Inspired by Hodes’ papercut, Westley invites the artist to contribute to her reflection on the crafting of works that are classified as ‘art’.
Hannah Westley
Hannah Westley is Associate Professor and Program Director of the MA in Global Communications in the Communication, Media and Culture Department at the American University of Paris. Her research interests include self-representation, new media, word/image relations and journalism. Recent publications include Now You See Me: Self-Representation in the Work of Charlotte Hodes (2016), published by About Face (University of the Arts, London); ‘Changing News Genres as a Result of Global Technological Changes’ (Digital Journalism Vol. 5 (8): 986-1005. August 2017) and ‘Reading the Self in Selfies’ (Comparative Critical Studies Vol. 13 (3): 371-390. February 2017).
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