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Acts of Resistance at South London Gallery and more ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ So Long a Letter, 2016 © Sethembile Msezane The opening of Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Protest at South London Gallery caps a trio of ambitious gender-based and political group shows in the capital, with the survey joining the Barbican’s RE/SISTERS: A Lens on Gender and Ecology and Tate Britain’s Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990 (until 07 April) in a landmark season for female and non-binary lens-based artists. The exhibitions all have slightly different focuses, with SLG’s looking predominantly beyond documentary work, Women in Revolt! focusing on an overlooked generation of artists and activists, and RE/SISTERS tracing the broader climate movement while, like Tate Britain’s show, featuring collectives including Format Photography and The Neo Naturists. Our editor Diane Smyth spoke with the curators of the SLG exhibition, who offered some insight on their responsibility to amplify feminist narratives from the last decade – a period of progress, but also fractious debate and, in many countries, legislative regression on issues such as abortion access. Congratulations to Ingrid Pollard, who has won the 2024 Hasselblad Award and will mount an exhibition at Gothenburg’s Hasselblad Center in October. A 1985 essay by Glynis Neslen reprinted in a new book, Shining Lights: Black Women Photographers in 1980s–90s Britain, speaks to Pollard’s far-reaching influence, including her time at The Lenthall Road Workshop in Hackney. “Pollard is one of a whole generation of feminist Black women photographers not only involved in the production of images, but in other forms of cultural production such as writing, painting, drawing and sculpture,” Neslen writes. This remains the case today: Pollard’s timber and slate sculptures are currently on show at Belsay Hall in Northumberland, where the artist now lives. Shining Lights is a brilliant volume edited by Joy Gregory, who will show new billboard works at Heathrow Terminal 4 this summer as part of Art on the Underground. Find out more in our upcoming Ones to Watch issue in June. Feminism’s lost decade? Artists reflect on today’s turbulent politics Featuring artists from across the world, this south London show surveys lens-based activism beyond straight documentary [Read more]( [Build the way you want]( A grandma’s advice: ‘Ignore the negative thoughts, life is hard enough anyway’ Lucija Rosc’s new project aims to capture her elder mentor’s creativity through collage, jokes and a vinyl record [Read more]( [Build the way you want]( How to make a collaborative photobook on autism With over 100,000 people awaiting an autism diagnosis in the UK, Harley Bainbridge spent time with one family navigating the highs and lows of the system [Read more]( [Build the way you want]( © Tatenda Chidora, Portrait of Humanity Vol. 5 series winner Final month to enter Portrait of Humanity Vol. 6 Two-hundred images will be selected to be featured in the Portrait of Humanity Vol. 6 photobook published by Bluecoat Press, while 30 single images and three exceptional bodies of work will be named winners and be exhibited at Four Corners in London, the Indian Photo Festival in Hyderabad, and the Łódź Fotofestiwal's ‘Night of Photography’ in Poland later this year [Learn more]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [1854 Media Ltd, 244-254 Cambridge Heath Rd, Cambridge Heath, London, E2 9DA, United Kingdom Click here to update your email preferences]( [Click here to unsubscribe from all emails](