Click Power
‘Click Power’: An Online Photo Exhibition of Women in Caribbean Politics is part of a larger project to develop an Online Archive of images of women’s participation and power in Caribbean politics.
The Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS) at The University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine Campus seeks digital photographs of women participating in political activities throughout the Anglophone Caribbean. Photographers do not need to be professionals.
We encourage photo submissions that take into account the region’s ethnic, class, age and religious diversity, as well as urban and rural differences. While photographs of women political candidates and politicians are welcome, we are especially interested in photographs of ordinary women’s participation in democratic politics, and the ways they combine their participation with other livelihood and family roles. Images should include a focus on: women in rallies, women on the campaign trail, women voting and at polling stations, women organizing in constituency offices, women speaking at cottage or community meetings, women canvassing in constituencies and communities and young women using the democratic process to advocate for gender justice.
Selected photographs will be included in an Online Photo Exhibition and Archive attached to the UWI-IGDS Website, as well as the websites of other partner organisations such as the International Development Research Centre in Canada and select UN agencies.
Submissions
- Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis. There is no limit on number of submissions.
- All photos are to be submitted in jpg format (minimum file size 1.5MB) to igds.politics@gmail.com
- Please include the name of the photographer, the date the photograph was taken, and a short description of a 100 words or less that provides some context or background to the photograph.
- First phase contributors will be notified of inclusion in the exhibit by March 31, 2012.
- Only successful submissions will be acknowledged.
- Copyright remains with individual photographers.
- Photographers will be credited for their images.
Further queries can be emailed to Tisha Nickenig,Project Coordinator at igds.politics@gmail.com.
'Click Power’: An Online Photo Exhibition of Women in Caribbean Politics is part of a larger research project that is being conducted at IGDS, UWI: Politics, Power and Gender Justice in the Anglophone Caribbean: Women’s Understandings of Politics, Experiences of Political Contestation and the Possibilities for Gender Transformation, which investigates global strategies for advancing democratic governance, women’s rights and gender equality in the Anglophone Caribbean.
For more information contact IGDS, The Institute for Gender and Development Studies
The University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine Campus
Tel Trinidad: 868 662 2002 Ext 83573/83577 | Email: igds@sta.uwi.edu
