Girl on Girl: Charlotte Jansen on women in photography

The journalist on how her new book examines the way women are depicted and the images they create for themselves

The way we see women is changing, thanks to a new generation of female photographers who are breaking into the mainstream consciousness for the first time in history. We’re used to seeing women depicted by men or for men, but the ‘female gaze’ – a visual world according to women, for women – offers a different perspective.

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