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Jenny Matthews (b.1948, UK) has worked as a photographer since 1982. Her work has been commissioned and published in a wide range of international magazines including Marie Claire, Guardian Weekend magazine, The Sunday Times, The Independent Magazine, Night and Day magazine and the Independent on Sunday Review.
She also done substantial work for development organisations (including Save the Children, Action Aid, Oxfam, Christian Aid, Sight Savers) particularly in Latin America, Middle East, Africa and South East Asia.
Her book Women and War was published in 2003 by Mets and Shilt in Holland, Pluto Press in UK and University of Michigan in USA. It was short-listed for the John Kobal book award and was highly commended.
The exhibition ‘Women and War’ was shown in London, Newcastle, Aberystwyth and Nottingham in 2003/4, and in The Imperial War Museum, Manchester, and St Mungo’s Museum, Glasgow in 2005
Our new core display references the local textile history, situating it within a framework of contemporary art and photography. Photography Heroines, whose oeuvres explore photography and fibre arts include......
Exhibition Review at Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow until 12th May....
Akin to many other pioneering women photojournalists, Jenny Matthews' work introduces a feminine approach to war photography...
FORMAT festival is back for another year featuring virtual galleries and talks from Heroines....
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