Fiona Rogers

Female artists have long employed collage to reflect the ways in which identity is often constructed from conflicting, contrasting and contradictory parts. Cut Out explores the relationship between photography and feminist collage, foregrounding the use of femmage – a radical reclaiming of craft traditionally associated with women – as a resilient method within feminist and political art. Cut Out presents an expanded definition of collage and cutting techniques to encompass photomontage, assemblage and the photogram. Tracing a lineage from nineteenth-century makers to contemporary practitioners, we encounter Victorian album makers; Modernist, Surrealist and Dadaist innovators; and radical, second-wave feminist artists. Thematic sections include profiles written by expert contributors on key individuals, including Hannah Höch, Dora Maar and Lorna Simpson. Looking to the future as much as the past, Cut Out also reveals how the pioneering work of contemporary and digital artists continues to subvert dominant narratives and foster ever-expanding forms of photographic collage. At a moment when photography and its history are being actively contested and reappraised, Cut Out is a reminder of its political power.

‘Cut Out: A Feminist History of Photo Collage, Montage and Assemblage’ featured in @ft_weekend magazine Huge thanks to @emma_bowkett 🤸‍♂️ #worldcollageday @thamesandhudson @vamparasolwomenphoto @photolondonfair

Hello friends 👋 It’s been a while… Firecracker has been on the back burner whilst I worked on this! My new book ‘Cut Out: A Feminist History of Photo Collage, Montage and Assemblage’ ✂️✂️✂️✂️✂️✂️✂️✂️✂️✂️✂️ It tells the previously untold relationship between photography, feminist art, and collage, spanning the nineteenth century to the present day. Female artists have long employed collage to reflect the ways in which identity is often constructed from conflicting, contrasting, and contradictory parts. Cut Out explores the relationship between photography and feminist collage, foregrounding the use of femmage—a radical reclaiming of craft traditionally associated with women—as a resilient method within feminist and political art. With text contributions from Alona Pardo @alona_pardo , Pelumi Odubanjo @pelumi.odubanjo , Renée Mussai @mussairenee , Damarice Amao @damariceamao , Matthew Biro @mbiro , Tania Sanabria @tansanabria , Elizabeth Siegel @lizsiegel1 , a very special poem from Justine Kurland @justine4good and an interview with femmagist Melissa Meyer @melissameyer201 . With thanks to Dr Freya Growrley @freyagowrley for the guidance & @j_lianolsen for her beautiful design. Out 30th April! Save 6th May for launch symposium! Published by @vamuseum & @thamesandhudson @vamparasolwomenphoto #books #feminism #collage #photomontage #assemblage

Stoked to be hosting the amazing @tourmaliiine for a very special Pride event at the museum on 4 July. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @sarah___allen & I had the privilege to share Tourmaline and Sasha Wortzel’s film ‘Happy Birthday, Marsha’ (2018) in our 2024 exhibition Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Protest’ at @southlondongallery last year, so it’s an honour to support the publication of ‘Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson’, the first definitive biography of the revolutionary Marsha P. Johnson, an iconic and trailblazing figure in LGBTQIA+ history. Join us at @vamuseum , against the backdrop of the Photography Centre’s ‘Queer Photobooks’ browsing library, and alongside a major new display of ‘American Photographs’ (Galleries 100 and 101), to discuss how Tourmaline brings this iconic, scandalous and vital justice warrior to life in full colour and gives this remarkable figure her rightful place in history. @tourmaliiine @southlondongallery @vamuseum Pride Book Club: Tourmaline and Marsha P. Johnson 📖 🌺 Friday, 4 July 2025 18.00 – 19.00 V&A South Kensington Gallery 98 - Kusuma Gallery – The Photography Centre Free (drop in – no ticket required) #pride #marshapjohnson #tourmaline #transgenderrights #queerlegacy

New edition from our pals at @southlondongallery by the incredible artist @hodaafshar , commemorating our Acts of Resistance show back in March 2024. 🌟 Hoda Asfar’s series titled In Turn, was made in response to the feminist uprising that began in Iran in September 2022, following the death of 22-year-old Jina Amini who had been arrested by Iran’s morality police for not wearing the hijab properly. The photographs are a tribute and a testament to collective action and collective grief. The women in the series are, like Afshar, Iranian Australians who have watched the protests unfold from afar. Dressed in black, they cluster together and braid each other’s hair. This is a direct allusion to the images on social media of women in Iran defiantly discarding the veil, and to a practice common among Kurdish female fighters who plait each other’s hair before heading into battle against the Islamic State. In Untitled 7, two doves are released. Often a symbol of peace, here they also reference grief felt by so many in Iran. When protesters are killed, their family and friends release birds into the sky. The twines of a plait are referred to as pichesh-e-moo in Farsi, meaning the turn or fold of the hair. A revolution is a turning point, but it is never without loss. In Turn was included in the South London Gallery’s 2024 exhibition, Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Protest, organised in collaboration with the V&A. All proceeds from your purchase directly support the South London Gallery’s programmes, keeping the gallery spaces accessible to all. UNTITLED 7 (FROM IN TURN SERIES), 2024 Digital print on Canson Rag Photographique 310gsm Edition of 25 Certificate signed and numbered Unframed Get yours now from @southlondongallery and support a great London institution and a fantastic artist 💝

I’ve admired the complex work @ilanitillouz since I saw it in Arles in 2021, so was stoked to be asked to write a text for her new exhibition ‘Sel Noir’ (Black Salt) with @annelaurebuffard There is true alchemy in Illouz’s work. A formal beauty in the physical materiality and gestural craft of her practice. It is a laborious task, one which is imbued with great care. After collecting her organic matter, she returns to her studio. Like Wedgwood, Niépce and Talbot, she creates and applies a solution to the surface of her photographic prints, often multiple times and over several months. There is a transformation. The result is not of this world; a lunar landscape, shining with a million diamonds. A trojan horse which belies its complexity and pulls in the viewer. Illouz speaks of the catharsis of the whole ‘act’ – the walking, collecting, remembering, washing, erasing and forgetting. For me, her prints are an act of resistance. An alternative archive of history. New life growing from roots of the past. Courtesy Galerie Anne-Laure Buffard ©️wonwoo Kim

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Join me on Friday 10th Nov for an exciting line up of talks curated for the Elles x @parisphotofair , including our ‘Acts of Resistance’ panel at 3.30pm. In this presentation Hoda Afshar (Iran), Myriam Boulous (Lebanon) and Yelena Yemchuk (Ukraine) will discuss their work in response to historic and ongoing conflict in their native countries. Rejecting traditional forms of documentary and photojournalistic practice, these artists are finding new creative strategies for ‘covering conflict’ and creating unique bodies of work, both personal and political, which form acts of protest and resistance. @hodaafshar courtesy @milanigallery @myriamboulos courtesy @magnumphotos @yemchuk courtesy of @kominekgallery

@afnmarie ‘Styx’ book launch and artist chat chaired by @jbnnmnn Friday 6 October at @tpgbookshop from 18:30. Come on down! 🍹

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Today marks the one year anniversary of Mahsa Jina Amini’s death in Iran, and the rise of the subsequent protest movement, Women, Life, Freedom, which continues today. In support of women’s rights in Iran we’ve made this lil charity number - all proceeds will go to support @amnestyuk and their efforts to lobby for change in Iran. Firecracker will match fund the total amount raised so please purchase, wear with pride & share widely! Link in bio… #womenlifefreedom #mahsaamini #zanzendegiazadi #iran

Sheida Soleimani’s brilliant new exhibition ‘Ghostwriter’ is now open @edelassanti A moving tribute to her parents sacrifice and a powerful insight into exile & displacement. @sheidajanam #iran #womenlifefreedom #zenzendegiazadi #photography #family #exile #displacement