Fast Forward 5; Women in Photography - striving for equality, diversity and inclusion for women through photography

安娜·福克斯教授是过去30年来最受赞誉的英国摄影师之一，最近被授予皇家摄影学会荣誉院士称号。自2016年以来，她发起、发展和推动了一个研发项目：摄影中的女性，该项目创建了一个全球网络，通过摄影对女性的平等、多样性和包容性产生了深远的影响。这个ED&I奖学金提供了一个机会，可以在快进项目和2020年宣言的目的和目标的基础上再接再厉，支持初级同事，并与进步思维的合作组织团体合作，支持被边缘化的女性社区。通过一系列创新的讲习班和辅导活动，目的是通过提高妇女使用摄影创作新作品的技能，提高对妇女使用摄影和讲故事做法的未曾听说过的生活故事的认识。最近的冠状病毒危机使讲述妇女的故事变得更加紧迫，凸显了被边缘化的妇女群体在社会中的不平等。每个讲习班将持续5至10天，将有导师和导师以及至少6名与合作伙伴有联系的参与者参加。通过推广实用技能、网络技能和行业知识，女性将培养使用摄影语言讲述新故事的信心。这四个讲习班将由合作伙伴从2021年2月开始举办，之后将进行一段时间的辅导期，直至项目结束，使学员能够在网络和制作高质量产品方面获得专业发展，并得到允许广泛传播。经学员允许，讲习班上创作的工作和进行的关键时刻将被记录在电影和/或声音中，目的是展示技能、信心和理解力的发展。通过与伙伴组织的合作，我们将积极将妇女与新的网络、新的经验和宝贵的榜样联系起来，并建立一个可持续的导师计划。输出包括艺术家在工作坊期间创作的书籍和版画。除了在当地图书馆和社区中心举办一系列较小规模的展览外，还将组织一次作品展，并将传播一系列关于与参与者和导师的采访/讨论的播客，旨在激励项目外的妇女，并作为遗产(由于Covid情况的限制，这些可能会有所不同)。产出将通过有效利用快进的网站和社交媒体以及通过合作伙伴和主办机构的网站和社交媒体产生最大影响，并将包括宣传展览、出版物、短片和播客。这些成果还将在2021年底在创意艺术大学举行的非殖民化课程(仅限标题)会议上展示。这项工作提供了一种方法，通过使用摄影工具来改善英国社会中被边缘化的女性(如难民)的条件和机会。我们还将发展与我们的合作伙伴的关系，使未来的合作方式能够支持妇女在摄影方面的工作。该奖学金的工作旨在提高参与者的幸福感、创造力和就业能力。通过将实际经验和新知识带给参加讲习班和辅导活动的妇女，她们将对自己新获得的技能获得理解和增强信心，并激发新的创造力和能力，这将有助于未来的福祉。给予被边缘化的女性发言权和机会讲述她们的故事，这些故事往往被隐藏起来，这一点至关重要。摄影具有讲述故事的能力，无论是书面语言还是口头语言都做不到。

Professor Anna Fox is one of the most acclaimed British photographers of the last thirty years and was recently awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. Since 2016 she has instigated, developed, and promoted Fast Forward: Women in Photography, a research and development project which has created a global network with far reaching impacts on the equality, diversity, and inclusion for women through photography.This ED&I Fellowship offers an opportunity to build on the Fast Forward project and the aims and objectives of the 2020 Manifesto, to support junior colleagues and to work in partnership with a progressive-thinking group of collaborator organisations to support a community of marginalised women. Through a series of innovative workshops and mentorship activities, the aim is to increase awareness of women's unheard life stories using photography and story-telling practices by increasing their skills to use photography to create new work. Most recently the coronavirus crisis has made the telling of women's stories all the more urgent, highlighting the inequalities within society for marginalised groups of women.Each workshop will run for between five and ten days and will involve tutors and mentors as well as at least six participants who are in contact with the partners. By promoting practical skills, networking skills, and industry knowledge, the women will develop confidence to tell new stories using the language of photography. The four workshops will be run by the partners starting in February 2021 and will be followed by a period of mentorship up to the end of the project enabling professional development in terms of networking and the production of high quality outputs, owned by participants, and widely disseminated, with permission.The work created and key moments in the processes undertaken at the workshops will be recorded, with participants' permission, on film and/or sound and aim to show the development of skills, confidence, and understanding. By working with the partner organisations, we will actively connect women to new networks, new experiences, and valuable role models, and set up a sustainable mentorship scheme.Outputs include artists books and prints made during the workshops. An exhibition of works will be organised along with a series of smaller scale exhibitions in local libraries and community centres, and a series of podcasts of interviews/discussions with both participants and mentors will be disseminated, designed to inspire women outside the project as well as to act as a legacy (These may vary with the restrictions due to the Covid situation). Outputs will be designed to create maximum impact through effective use of the website and social media of Fast Forward and through that of the partners and host institution, and will include promotion of exhibitions, publications, short films, and podcasts. The outputs will also be presented at the conference Decolonising the Curriculum (working title only) at University for the Creative Arts in late 2021.This work offers an approach to improve conditions and opportunities for marginalised women in UK society (such as refugees) by using the tool of photography. We will also be developing our relationships with our partners enabling future ways of working together to support women in photography. The work of this fellowship is designed to improve well-being, creativity, and employability of those involved. By bringing practical experience and new knowledge to the women taking part in the workshops and mentorship activity they will gain understanding and grow confidence in their newly acquired skills and inspire new creativity and abilities that will contribute to future well-being. It is vital to give marginalised women a voice and the opportunity to tell their stories, stories that have frequently been hidden. Photography has the ability to tell stories in a way that neither the written nor spoken word can do.