It's Women's History Month!

...and it's also time to look at how women photographers were represented in the news in 2021.

For the past five years, the Women Photograph data team has been recording the lead photo byline from the front pages of eight international newspapers. Here's the 2021 breakdown of the byline of every lead front page photo by gender in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Globe and Mail, Le Monde, and The Guardian:

Horrified to hear that the @whitneymuseum has reached out to a slew of Black photographers informing them that prints acquired via the first See in Black print sale — meant to be a fundraiser for Black social justice orgs — will be exhibited as part of a show opening in 3 weeks. This is not a responsible or a respectful way to engage with artists — nor does it feel particularly sound for an institution with a $300 million+ endowment to acquire $100 prints that were priced to benefit anti-racism non-profits.

So I decided to dig a little deeper into some of the Year in Pictures slideshows and examine them not just by the gender of the photographers, but by the gender of the people *in* the photographs as well. [Thread!] We have a lot of conversations about why it's important that the photojournalism community be truly diverse, and what the material costs are of having a historically homogenous group of photographers in charge of how we see the world.

Here's a handy thread on the gender breakdown of the 2018 Pictures of the Year slideshows that we'll keep going this month: 1. @ReutersPictures: 15/100 images taken by women. 15%.
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