What is Your Image of Men and Love in Times of War and Polarization? Submit Your Photos to WILPF International by January 1!
Published on December, 34 2023
by Editor Vanessa Sibbald
based on a WILPF International announcement
December 2023
Building a culture of peace includes reframing art. You can contribute to that initiative by submitting your photo to WILPF International’s Second Photography Collaboration – part of the Mobilising Men for Feminist Peace Programme.
In these times of wars and increasing polarization, when men often play a pivotal role in conflict and violence, WILPF International invites you to submit your photo on the theme of men and love in times of war and polarization.
Share your vision about who, where, how and what men can and do love.
“We are regularly inundated with images of men’s violence. We gradually become inured to them and too easily come to equate men and masculinities with aggression and violence,” explained Pete Muller, photography collaboration convenor. “We want to generate an alternative vision that inspires conversations about men’s capacity for love. We are excited to see the images selected by our impressive jury and to share them online and in exhibitions in the many countries in which WILPF works”
Your images can help us to better understand conflict and violence, perhaps even mitigate them. Here’s your opportunity to reflect on, and share their work about, men and love.
Photographers from around the world will interpret this call widely. How can you show the complex ways that men exhibit, struggle with and otherwise practice and relate to notions of love in their lives and relationships?
WILPF International will exhibit the photographs selected by the jury online and in high visibility indoor and outdoor locations. Potentially, locations will include: the United Nations Headquarters in New York and Geneva, the European Union, the African Union, and in many of the countries in which the project is implemented in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia.
Here’s your chance to have your photographic work seen around the world! We in WILPF work in many different ways to build a world of peace and solidarity. The realms of art and culture are crucial to influencing the assumptions people make about the world and what is possible. In these grim times of war and polarization, help us all envision the many alternative possibilities of men and love!
For more information, visit WILPF International’s webpage.
