Join us for a talk by Dr. Kelly McCormick (University of British Columbia), who will discuss her book project on the history of Japanese women photographers and their untold stories.
Kelly McCormick’s Contested Frames: Women, Photography, and the Politics of Seeing in Modern Japan tells the history of Japanese women photographers from their collaboration with the Japanese government during wartime to their use of photography to critique the state and patriarchal systems in the 1970s. McCormick will discuss the untold stories of women photographers to reveal the ways that photography has been crucial to building community and pushing back against media depictions of women in Japan.
This talk is free and open to the public. No registration is required.
Date & Time:
Friday, November 7, 2025 | 12:00pm – 1:30pm PT
Location:
Room 604, Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall, Vancouver
Speaker
Kelly McCormick is an Assistant Professor in the History Department at UBC whose research focuses on the visual culture of modern Japan. She co-created the website, Behind the Camera: Gender, Power, and Politics in the History of Japanese Photography: https://behindthecamerajapan.arts.ubc.ca/ and was a contributor to I’m so Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now (2024).
