The images that circulate globally play a powerful role in shaping how gender, power, and social realities are understood — influencing everything from public debate and cultural memory to research, advocacy, and policy.
Yet the communities, cultural contexts, and visual practices that should inform these narratives too often remain underrepresented in the images and institutions that influence them.
The Regional Curatorial Fellows Programme exists to help shift that.
For the first time, This is Gender is embedding regional curators directly within the heart of its global photography competition — bringing local knowledge, critical perspective, and lived context into how work is discovered, interpreted, contextualised, and shared.
This is an opportunity to help reshape the platform from within — influencing not only which images are seen, but how gender is framed, debated, and acted upon across cultural, public, and policy spaces.