Exhibition, Member view
Tuija Lindström and the conditions for female photographers
In connection with Tuija Lindström’s exhibition Valokuva, det egna språket at Kulturhuseet in Stockholm, photographers Stina Brockman and Emilia Bergmark Jimenez talk with moderator Mia Bengtsson Plynning about how the conditions for female photographers and artists have looked and changed.
Tuija Lindström paved the way for subjective, personal photography both through her own artistry and her time as a professor at HDK. Many of her works were created in
the close environment where family and friends were, unlike many male photographers from the same time who documented wars and travels around the world.
Stina Brockman (b.1951) has been a working photographer since the 1970s. Technique and photographic craftsmanship have always been of great importance in her artistry, where close portraits, studies of bodies and floating shadows open up for associations, questioning of norms and deep dives into the human psyche. Stina Brockman is represented at Moderna Museet and Hasselblad, among others, and is currently participating in a residency at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in May 2022.
Emilia Bergmark Jimenez (b.1982) works as a commercial photographer with a strong feminist commitment and focus on representation and diversity. Her clients include: IOGT-NTO, Apoteket, Utbildningsradion, the Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation, Riksteatern, and others. She debuted as an author in 2020 with the book En förälders födelse, which is about when her son Miguel was born, about the complexity of being a parent and a woman.
Mia Bengtsson Plynning is the national coordinator for the Center for Photography, a member of the Tuija Lindström association which manages and preserves Tuija Lindström’s photographic legacy, and a partner of the photo agency Link Image.
The conversation is a collaboration between Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Fotoförfattarna/SFF, and the Swedish Photographers’ Association.
