Reading Pollock’s latest book, Zhao becomes an engaged witness to her dialogue with Helen Rosenau, a mid-20th-century feminist art critic.
Yelin Zhao
Yelin Zhao is an art historian specialising in European art from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her work contemplates the conditions of creative practices through the lens of Marxist and feminist theories. Having taught art history and creative art students at the University of Leeds and the University of Central Lancashire, she has developed an extensive interest in contemporary visual cultures and creative industries. In 2023, she published an essay in the catalogue of the Suzanne Valadon exhibition at the Pompidou-Metz, France, and a book chapter (with her collaborator) on the transnational eSport labour flow in the Asia Pacific region.
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