'WOMEN: New Portraits'

Annie Leibovitz with UBS, 2016-7

'WOMEN: New Portraits' was an exhibition of commissioned photographs by photographer Annie Leibovitz which toured 10 international locations: beginning at Wapping Hydraulic Power Station in London, and travelling to Tokyo, San Francisco, Singapore, Hong Kong, Mexico City, Istanbul, Frankfurt, New York and Zurich. The exhibition continued her photographic project ‘Women’ which began as a collaboration with Susan Sontag and became Leibovitz’s most enduringly popular series of photographs.

 

'WOMEN: New Portraits' grew cumulatively over the year-long exhibition, capturing women in host cities from differing backgrounds, nationalities and paths, intending to communicate the diversity of female experience and empowerment.

 

The exhibition was accompanied by a Learning Programme which engaged over seven thousand young people worldwide, carried out through partnerships with photography institutions and art galleries in each host city such as The Photographer's Gallery in London, SFAI in San Francisco and Jumex in Mexico City.

 

A series of Curated Talks raised and discussed critical women’s issues specific to the host city including violence against women, economic independence, sexism in the justice system and the portrayal of women in the media.