REPRESENTATION MATTERS

Representation Matters offers insights from leading photographers, journalists, and cultural practitioners on the crucial role of reflective representation. Through interviews and expert perspectives, this series highlights the power of inclusive and accurate representation in shaping our understanding, policies, and the world around us.

Discover why images matter in global health and beyond and explore the transformative impact of representation in fostering empathy, equity, and social change.

Flash frames

Snapshot perspectives on representation, visual ethics and the evolving role of images from the people on the frontlines of visual culture.

#Blackdragmagic, behind the image - Lee-Ann Olwage
A message to global leaders - Lee-Ann Olwage
The power of photography - Lee-Ann Olwage

Read the Interviews

‘It’s so powerful to be seen,’ An interview with Su Cassiano
‘Photography helps me to understand life’ – an interview with Jacqueline Ennis-Cole
“Photographs are receipts, a form of accountability”- an interview with Nnebuifé Kwubéï
‘There needs to be more than a conversation, there needs to be action’ – An interview with Dan Agostini
‘Photography is a tool to communicate to the world things that we may not understand or experience ourselves’ – An interview with Anwar Sadat Swaka 
‘Art as a tool for social transformation’ – An interview with Karen Toro
‘Everyone wants to be seen, especially if you have been neglected, rejected, denied’ An interview with Katia Repina 
‘If we don’t go to these spaces and we don’t reclaim them, it’s like we don’t exist’ – an interview with Lee-Ann Olwage
The personal is political, An interview with Lensational
Who’s telling the stories? An interview with Greta Rico
Artists Against Depression, An interview with Chudy Ogobegwu
Rendering visible the invisible, an interview with Isabella Gomes
‘We need to question our lenses and ways of seeing’- an interview with Andrei Liankevich