Women photographers come out of the shadows

After our special issue on women photographers in 2017, and the dossier published two years ago on the 10 women who make photography in France, Fisheye returns once again to the lack of visibility of women in the 8th art. The awareness of this underexposure is beginning to be recognized, as evidenced by Une Histoire mondiale des femmes photographes, which has just been published by Textuel editions, which we report on in this feature. But the road is still long. This is underlined by a study commissioned by the Ministry of Culture, whose figures we publish here. The institution has also taken the initiative, with Paris Photo, to organize a digital journey as part of its policy to promote the visibility of women photographers. This platform, ellesxparisphoto.com, brings together nearly 40 women, young, confirmed, little known or who have marked the history of photography. Biographical information, interviews and videos allow us to look back at their commitments.

Renaissance

Fisheye new concept Telling, inspiring, revealing contemporary photography This is neither our 50th issue, nor our 10th anniversary, nor a remarkable date, just the right time to question ourselves and propose a new formula in line with your expectations and with our vision. Fisheye, after eight years, really needed a new look with this fierce will to serve the authors even better. So the team went to work in order to reinvent itself, to question itself, to elevate itself. We kept what we felt was at the heart of the project: the name, the format and the authors. The rest, we rethought entirely. In addition to this new cover (which exists in a premium version for subscribers), you will find two different papers inside. A satin paper at the beginning and at the end for analysis, diaries, portraits, columns or reflection. In the center, a matte paper that serves a sequence of 60 pages of portfolios that tell us stories, without ads, as an immersion in the best of the photo productions of the moment. This sequence is at the heart of the new Fisheye, because it sums up the spirit of the magazine: to find, all over the world, the looks that are most in tune with our time. We wanted to be an anti glossy paper. This object that you hold in your hands has a perenniality. It is no longer a magazine, nor a book, nor a mook, but a separate object that has been designed to pay tribute to photographers. From the fiction of war to the blind who dream in images, from Théo Gosselin's melancholic road trip to the healers of Peru, Fisheye has rethought its heart to better nourish your souls.