Framing the Female Gaze

Sunday, 13 April 2025, 11:00-14:00
Registrations open!

The Female Gaze is a way of looking at the world from a woman’s perspective, capturing people’s emotions, stories, and realities which are often overlooked in mainstream photography. Unlike the male gaze, which has historically objectified, limited, and defined women through their perspective, The Female Gaze offers depth, intimacy, and a more personal connection with their subject.

The purpose is to explore the emotions, experiences, and sense of agency of an individuality. In her own state of madness, Fatima worked extensively with women, where ultimately they found their liberation and freedom. Basically focusing on humanising an individual rather than merely portraying one as an object with the sole purpose of attracting others with their physicalities.

This space is essentially for those of us who come from marginalised histories, whose stories have been overlooked or misrepresented. Through photography, we reclaim our narratives, frame our realities and bring empathy into our art of storytelling with its intersections and softness.

Framing the Female Gaze is a beginner-friendly photography workshop led by a woman, designed to explore how women see and frame the world through their lenses. This workshop will help in discovering your own perspective and learn how to express it through photography.

The Female Gaze is about:
● Empathy: Women often bring a deeper emotional connection to their subjects. Instead of
objectifying, we humanize. Instead of controlling, we collaborate.
● Nuance: The Female Gaze allows intimacy, complexity, contradiction, and realness.
● Resistance: For women, especially those from marginalised communities, photography is an act of resistance.

As we say, we need the world to see women, through their own eyes, our own vision, and our own truths to tell.

Fatima Juned is a visual artist and writer based between Lucknow and Delhi. Her work explores themes of gender, violence, livelihoods, and labour, capturing the everyday realities of people around her. Through her work, she weaves together memory, space, and personal narratives, often returning to her village as a source of inspiration. Her work is deeply rooted in lived experiences, offering a powerful reflection on social structures and human resilience. Along with this, she works with not for profits, curating spaces for dialogue, intersecting with artistic practices.