Charlotte Jansen

Charlotte Jansen is a former editor-at-large at Elephant. She is the author of two books on photography: Girl on Girl: Art and Photography in the Age of the Female Gaze (LKP, 2017) and Photography Now (Tate/Ilex, 2021). She is also the presenter of the Dior Talks podcast series on the female gaze.

Sexuality, Solace and Social Power in the Work of Billie Zangewa

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Zara’s Female Gaze Collection Is Cynical Capitalism at Its Worst

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What It’s Like Giving Birth During a Pandemic

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Is Photography An Effective Form of Therapy?

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Joy Labinjo’s New Paintings Are an Unflinching Look at British Racism

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Western Museums Are Problematic: What Can Be Done to Change Them?

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What the Notorious Ruth Bader Ginsburg Meme Says About American Culture

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A Male Artist’s Invitation to Destroy Women’s Faces Is Unapologetic Misogyny

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This Image by Bill Brandt Speaks of British Classism

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How to Fail at Being an Ally to the Black Lives Matter Movement 

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Toyin Ojih Odutola Gives Shape to the Migrant Experience of Otherness

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For Mickalene Thomas, Success Is About Elevating Others

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Why Are We So Sentimental About Photographs of Our Mothers?

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The Real Reason We’re All Posting Old Photographs of Our Mothers

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Inside Hassan Hajjaj’s Riad in the Heart of Marrakech

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The Gaze of White Women Artists on Black Subjects

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Why These Artists Brutalize the Female Body

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Why Shirin Neshat Is Turning Her Gaze Away From Iran

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This Norwegian Artist Photographed Herself Every Day for a Year

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Does the Art World Have a Problem with Fat People?

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Silvia Rosi on Migration, Matriarchy and Photography as Ritual

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Every Form of Love Is Celebrated in Cassi Namoda’s Loose and Lyrical Paintings

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Inside One of London’s Most Iconic, Pioneering and Madcap Galleries

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These Radical Chinese Artists Go to New Extremes to Make Their Art

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