This book was shortlisted for the 2018 Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards, Photography Catalogue of the Year.

"In 2016, Susan Meiselas was invited by Multistory to visit the Black Country in the West Midlands, UK. The resulting book 'A Room of Their Own' is a multilayered, visual story comprised of Meiselas' photographs, first hand testimonies and original art works from women in refuge. A few months before the launch of the book in May 2017, The Photographers' Gallery asked Meiselas to exhibit a print for their Touchstone programme, where visitors are invited to respond to a photograph through writing and drawing. The response card asks a simple question: 'What do you see?' This publication, 'A View of a Room', reproduces a selection of the responses that were submitted alongside a signed 6 x 4 inch archival print of the photograph Meiselas chose to contribute - Ritu's Room"--Here Press website, viewed March 29, 2019.

"A Room of Their Own - the book - is a visual narrative combining photographs, first hand testimonies and original art works. It was created through a series of collaborative workshops with Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas and women in refuge, in the Black Country, over 2015 and 2016. A Room of Their Own shares women's experiences of domestic abuse and the process of entering refuge alone, or with their children, to the collective life within, to then becoming resettled in their own home. The visual narrative emphasises absence in order to protect the women's identities, and progressively their presence becomes more visible with the inclusion of their stories and artwork and, in some instances, portraits."--Multistory website viewed March 29, 2019.

80 handwritten texts. Offset lithoprint on uncoated recycled paper, French fold dust jacket with flaps. Photographic print signed by artist.

Shortlisted for the 2018 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photography Catalogue Award.

Abused women > England > In art.

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