Jo Spence: Fairytales and Photography: Curated by the Jo Spence Memorial Library Archive (Birkbeck, University of London) and the Centre for British Photography

WORKSHOP ORGANISED BY BIRKBECK, UNIVERSITY of london VENUE: CENTRE FOR BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHY The photographer Jo Spence (1934 – 1992) is closely associated with the radical London left of the 1970s and 1980s and particularly feminist politics. The phrase “the personal is political,” often deployed to summarise some of the aims of the Women’s Liberation Movement, invokes the idea of self-representation as a primary political goal, but what does 'the personal” mean in a context of collective political organisation and art production? This workshop invites participants to take a long view...