The history of photography has a long tradition of representing women as subjects but has less to say about women as artists. Today, the roles of women in photography are both behind the camera and in front of it. Who understands women better than women? The female perspective offers an important view of the many facets of womanhood and women’s role in society. This exhibition seeks women photographers who explore and celebrate the myriad ways that they render female-identifying subjects. 

Hannah Altman is a Jewish-American artist whose work considers how narrative is constructed, altered, and embodied through storytelling. Through sculpted light and enacted gesture, her photographs explore the porosity between memory and myth.

She holds an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her photobooks Kavana (Kris Graves Projects, 2020) and We Will Return to You (Saint Lucy Books, 2025) are held in libraries including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty, Harvard University, and Stanford University. 

Altman’s photographs have been published in The New York Times, Artforum, Vanity Fair, Harper’s Magazine, LensCulture, and British Journal of Photography. Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, MK&G Hamburg, Houston Center for Photography, Koffler Arts, Athens Photo Festival, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and Silver Eye Center for Photography.