A selected record tracing how This is Gender has entered public and editorial discourse across international media
FEATURED STORY
Aesthetica Magazine — The Politics of Visibility (2025)
In an in-depth interview for Aesthetica Magazine, This is Gender founder and curator Imogen Bakelmun reflects on Cripping the Lens and its challenge to dominant visual narratives around gender and disability. Published to coincide with the exhibition’s launch, the conversation situates the project within a wider moment of political rollback on disability rights, asking who is made visible in visual culture — and on whose terms.
Drawing on This is Gender’s broader commitment to visual justice, the interview explores how art can function as resistance: expanding what counts as evidence, challenging reductive representations, and centring care, joy, and access as political acts. Published by one of the UK’s leading international art magazines, the piece positions Cripping the Lens as both a critical exhibition and a counter-archive, rooted in global perspectives and collaborative, disability-led practice.
PRESS HIGHLIGHTS
The Guardian — Visualising Gender During the Pandemic – in Pictures (2021)
Published during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, this Guardian photo essay marked a significant moment in establishing This is Gender as a platform for visual storytelling at a time of global health crisis. Drawing on works from the 2021 competition, it demonstrated how photography could surface gendered dimensions of the pandemic when public understanding of health was under intense scrutiny.
The Guardian — This is Gender: Photography Competition – in Pictures (2020)
Our first appearance in The Guardian coincided with the launch of Power, Privilege, Priorities, showcasing winning and shortlisted works from This is Gender’s inaugural photography competition and marking the project’s entry into international media.
PRESS COVERAGE ARCHIVE
Aesthetica Magazine — The Politics of Visibility (2025)
El Financiero TV (Mexico) — Interview with This Is Gender artist (2025)
The Big Issue Magazine — Disability reframed — Cripping the Lens (2025)
Art & Museum Magazine — Cripping the Lens: Art, Gender and Disability in Focus (2025)
Mag North — Global Exhibition challenges how we see gender, disability and power (2025)
RSA+ Journal — RSA celebrates UK-Japan ties at Expo 2025 (2025)
The Guardian — Visualising Gender During the Pandemic — In Pictures (2021)
The Guardian — This is Gender: Photography Competition — In Pictures (2020)
This is Gender collaborates with journalists, editors, and cultural platforms working across visual justice, gender, ethical representation, development, and global health. We welcome editorial enquiries, interview requests, and proposals for coverage that engage critically with the project and its wider contexts.