Small Town Inertia

Helena: Every Day Is a Morning After is a collaboration with Oxford Brookes University. Jim Mortram is a British social documentary photographer and writer, based in Norfolk. The ongoing project Small Town Inertia records the lives of a number of disadvantaged and marginalised people living near his home

Mahdia Danishyar, 16 DOSTI Club Leader, student activist

The New Woman is a 2019 collection by Elena Gallina at The Jam Factory in Hollybush Row. The portraits of Afghan women and girls invites the viewer to explore the role of beauty through their stories. Gallina’s project is an effort to demystify ‘the Afghan woman’ and make space for a conversation on the universal complications of beauty

The Highest Product of Capitalism (after John Heartfield), 1979

Part of the A Different Mirror exhibition, a collaboration between the Hyman Collection and the Maud Sulter Estate. In this image, the artist, Jo Spence, references a work from 1932 by the Dada artist and photomontage pioneer John Heartfield

2016, Studio Portrait: self-portrait of me as my father

The Togolaise-Italian photographer Silvia Rosi explores her family history by retracing her parents’ journey of migration from Togo to Italy and drawing on her Togolaise heritage and the idea of origins. A selection of images from her Encounter series, supported by Jesus College, Oxford, will be installed in the Cornmarket

Supermarché, 1971

Unretouched Women, curated by Clara Bouveresse, is at the Maison Française d’Oxford, and reveals the artists’ process of making books to test the photographic image of women. In the mid-70s, books by three US photographers offered new looks into the private lives of women. Growing Up Female by Abigail Heyman (1974), is a feminist diary, The Unretouched Woman, by Eve Arnold (1976), shows women captured at unexpected moments of their daily lives, and Susan Meiselas’ 1976 Carnival Strippers is the result of four years following travelling striptease shows in the US

Portrait of Jesica

‘This is a photo I took of Jesica wearing flowers on her face.’ One of the Expert Choice Top 10 winners of the Open Call contest, which is on show at OVADA

Mum and I in bed

‘A tender moment shared between my mother and me in bed one morning.’ Twenty images from the Open Call competition, selected by a panel of experts, are on show at OVADA

Christelle from the National Narrative series

The expert panel winner of the Open Call contest, on show at OVADA. A short film about the National Narrative series can be viewed here

15-03, August 2, Thursday, 2012

Drawing on nearly a decade of work, the Open Space exhibition reveals the unique practice of Femke Dekkers, who brings together photography, painting and sculpture to explore the limits of human vision and comprehension. Using the camera as a tool to play games with our powers of perception and treating her studio as a stage set, she explores the tension between static architecture and illusions of painterly perspective. Curated by Anstice Oakeshott at Zuleika Gallery, Woodstock

Strength and Resilience

Strength and Resilience is a series of portraits by Fran Monks of the women involved with the Gatehouse Project; a drop in cafe and community centre for the homeless and vulnerably housed in Oxford. The pictures of staff, volunteers and homeless women are on display side-by-side at the Festival, to recognise the significance of their achievements, regardless of their housing status.

Lilly and Waltraud, from the series All This Love

The winning image from a public vote on Photocrowd in the Open Call competition

Tandem Feeding, from the series Birth of a Mother

This image placed fifth in the public vote on Photocrowd in the Open Call competition

Greenham Common, 1983

Protest on Camera features images curated by Maggie Murray and Taous Dahmani and is presented via outdoor projections in the city. Maggie is one of the founders of Format Photographers Agency, which supported female photographers from 1983 to 2003. Taous is a PhD student of the history of photography at Panthéon-Sorbonne and Maison Française

The Moments In Between

This image placed sixth in the public vote on Photocrowd in the Open Call competition

National City No 3, 1996-2009

Part of the Circles collection, curated by Joanna Vestey at her Oxford studio. This collection consists of 50 photographic prints weaving an idiosyncratic path through the history of photography, from early modernist works drawn to the circle’s economy of form by Edward Steichen and Imogen Cunningham, to concept-driven works by John Baldessari and Lewis Baltz and politically motivated works by Broomberg and Chanarin

Triple Self-Portrait, solarised 1933

An exhibition at the Bodleian Libraries showcases the work of Helen Muspratt (1907-2001), one of Britain’s leading photographers. Curated by her daughter Jessica Sutcliffe, it highlights her ground-breaking work and innovative solarisation techniques, her intimate portrayal of life in Soviet Russia, and portrait work from her studio in Oxford