Join us for an evening exploring the work of Dorothy Bohm and Lydia Goldblatt, two stunningly talented photographers whose works each inspire a considered investigation of themes of motherhood and womanhood as a whole.
Dorothy Bohm was one of the most prolific, versatile and admired female photographers of the 20th century. Dorothy Bohm at 100 takes a fresh look at the photographer’s 75-year-long career, showing a selection of her most iconic images alongside many previously unpublished works. Born in 1924 into a Jewish family in East Prussia, Dorothy Bohm was sent to the safety of England in 1939. Her experience of war and dislocation deeply influenced her photographic approach, one that displays a fascination with people from all walks of life, particularly women and children.
Fugue by Lydia Goldblatt is a body of work about love and grief, mothering and losing a mother, intimacy and distance, told through photographs and writing. Centring on the domestic space and made over the course of four years, it tells a story that is neither apologetic nor idealised.
Katy Barron is Director of Photo Oxford photography festival, as well as being Chair of Photofusion in London. She is a photography curator and manages and advises a number of artists and estates.Monica Bohm-Duchen is a London-based art historian, lecturer, writer and curator and has been closely involved with her mother Dorothy Bohm’s photographic archive since the late 1990s.
Lydia Goldblatt is a London-based photographer. Her work considers themes of origins, transience and emotional experience through a lyrical harnessing of photography’s primary characteristics of light, time and surface. Her works creatively fuse the approaches of both documentary and constructed photography.
