Paula Luttringer’s photographs bear witness to those who, like her, survived torture during the 1976-83 dictatorship in Argentina.
Jordana Blejmar
Jordana Blejmar is Senior Lecturer in Visual Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Liverpool. She writes on art and politics in Latin America. She is the author of Playful Memories: The Autofictional Turn in Post-Dictatorship Argentina (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and the co-editor of Instantáneas de la memoria: Fotografía y dictadura en Argentina y América Latina (2013), El pasado inasequible: desaparecidos, hijos y combatientes en el arte y la literatura del nuevo milenio (2018) and Entre/telones y pantallas: afectos y saberes en la performance argentina contemporánea (2021). She is a Tate Associate and Assistant Editor of the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. She is the PI of the AHRC-funded project Cold War Toys: Material Cultures of Childhood in Argentina (2022-24).
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