Unity through Diversity: Leica Women Foto Project Panel | Photoville

The Leica Women Foto Project aims to empower the female perspective and its influence on today’s visual narratives. We believe that the shape of a story is influenced by the storyteller’s perspective, crafting narratives that often reflect individual truths. Immerse yourself in the captivating world of visual storytelling as we introduce you to this year's remarkable Leica Women Foto Project awardees: Jennifer Osborne (Canada), Koral Carballo (Mexico), Anna Neubauer (UK) and Priya Suresh Kambli (United States), moderated by Eva Woolridge.

Discover the unique perspectives of this year’s awardees in an exclusive panel discussion, where you'll learn about their photographic journeys and unravel the compelling narratives behind their award-winning projects.

Featured Artist Bio (Jen Osborne): Jen Osborne (1984) is a Canadian photographer who has published and exhibited photographs and videos internationally. Her career started in 2007 with a yearlong work contract at Fabrica’s COLORS Magazine. Since then, her work has graced the pages of Stern, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, GQ, Mother Jones, Vice, Vanity Fair Italy, and IoDonna, to name a few. Osborne has also shown at venues including Visa pour l’Image 2022 and 2016, Athens Photo Festival 2020, Aperture Gallery, The Museum de l’Elysée, the Denver Biennial, and Arles 2010. Osborne's recent projects of interest revolve around Climate Change. She photographs wildland fires and their aftermath. She also spent months documenting public efforts to save ancient old-growth forests near Port Renfrew, Canada. Outside of photography, Osborne is passionate about horseback riding, avant-garde piano and fitness. It is her goal to become the world’s premier fire photographer. 

Featured Artist Bio (Koral Carballo): Koral Carballo (born in Poza Rica, Veracruz, Mexico, 1987) is a documentary photographer, photojournalist, and visual artist based in Mexico. Through photography, oral storytelling, and the archive Carballo investigates new narratives and visual representations of themes that intersect in the contemporary and historical context, such as necropolitical violence, Afro-descendence, and its relationship to memory. Carballo has exhibited her work in Argentina, Bolivia, Canada, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands,  Spain, Switzerland, The United States, and Uruguay. Koral is co-founder of the International Festival of Journalistic and Documentary Photography Mirar Distinto in Veracruz, Mexico. She is currently collaborates with Ruda Collective, and is an Artist from the National System in Mexico. 

Featured Artist Bio (Anna Neubauer): Anna Neubauer is an Austrian photographer based in London, United Kingdom. After experiencing the narrow concepts of beauty in the industry, she began her journey towards capturing what truly matters to her - stories of self-love, acceptance, and resilience. Anna thinks the less diversity people see in their everyday lives, the more disconcerting they might find it, and that's something she can change. Anna is working towards figuring out how to make viewers see strength in vulnerability and rawness in imperfection and she wants her work to be a bold and beautiful statement of rebellion against the confines of beauty standards. In 2021, Anna Neubauer was named Adobe Rising Star of Photography. She has since worked with clients like Barbie, Condé Nast, Leica, Canon, Yoto, Abercrombie & Fitch, Adobe, Harper's Bazaar and 500px/Getty Images, and her work has been featured in international publications and media like British Vogue, The Guardian, Forbes, CNN, The Today Show, The Times, It's Nice That, Cosmopolitan, Buzzfeed, and others.  

Featured Artist Bio (Priya Suresh Kambli): Priya Kambli received her BFA at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette and an MFA from the University of Houston. She is currently Professor of Art at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. Kambli’s work inadvertently examines the question asked by her son Kavi at age three; did she belong to two different worlds, since she spoke two different languages? The essence of his question continues to be a driving force in her art making. In her work, Kambli has always strived to understand the formation and erasure of identity that is an inevitable part of the migrant experience, exploring the resulting fragmentation of family, identity, and culture. Kambli’s artwork has been exhibited, published, collected and reviewed in the national and international photographic community. Her work has been exhibited at the Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Arts, Overland Park, KS; Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, VA; National Portrait Gallery’s Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, 2021 London, United Kingdom. Her work has been published in Aperture - summer issue #251- Being and Becoming: Asian in America; PIX photography quarterly magazine Passages: a subcontinental imaginary; Photography: A Feminist History by Emma Lewis

Featured Moderator Bio (Eva Woolridge):  Eva Woolridge (she/her) is an award-winning Queer, Black & Chinese conceptual portrait photographer, public speaker, and social activist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her photo series explore the sexual, spiritual, and emotional nature of femininity. In her work she transcends surface-level labels of people of color by conveying strength, perseverance, vulnerability and vitality using strong lighting and composition.

In 2019 Woolridge became a recipient of The Leica Women in Foto Award for her series,  "The Size of a Grapefruit,” a visual narrative based on Eva’s traumatic medical event which highlights the emotional stages from before, during and after her ovarian cyst surgery. Her objective is to address the accounts of her surgery, micro-aggressions and medical negligence Black women experience during medical emergencies, and the outdated information available in women's reproductive health. 

Woolridge continues to use visual narratives to convey a tone of a new, inclusive wave of feminine energy through her gaze as a queer, woman of color, while commenting on the social & cultural conditions of her communities.

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