WOPHA Workshop

Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) is pleased to announce receipt of a $30,000 award from The Green Family Foundation Trust (GFF) to launch the WOPHA Research Fellowship and other projects taking place during its 2023 partnership cycle.

WOPHA is a non-profit organization founded by art historian and curator Aldeide Delgado to research, promote, support, and educate about the role of photographers who identify as women and non-binary.  The organization is currently documenting the diverse artistic production of Latin American and Latinx communities, including photographers from Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and artists of Latin American descent living and working in the United States.

The WOPHA Research Fellowship, made possible with leading support from the Green Family Foundation Trust, supports one exemplary research initiative by candidates such as scholars, curators, and artists, to be shared with the public through exhibitions and forums. The program funds the digital publication of innovative scholarship on women photographers from underrepresented communities. 

“WOPHA welcomes this opportunity to support emerging scholars through its first Research Fellowship program. This work will surely take root in the community and add vibrant scholarship that is produced by a roster of next-generation curators and art-historians,” states WOPHA founder and president Aldeide Delgado.

The partnership with GFF allows the launch of WOPHA’s upcoming exhibition, Welcome To My Volcano: WOPHA Artists in Residence, at Green Space Miami, 7200 Biscayne Boulevard, from June 22 – August 20, 2023. Highlighting works by WOPHA’s first group of artists-in-residence, the show features photographers Amanda Bradley, Adama Delphine Fawundu, and Nadia Huggins.

The GFF funds support two additional initiatives: Braiding Roots, a community impact project that invites a woman photographer to document, through a photo essay, the world of the Miami braiding industry. The other is the furthering of the digitization efforts of the Archive.

About the Partnership

Green Space Miami is the Green Family Foundation’s art space. Guided by the Foundation’s principles of inclusion, community empowerment and education, Green Space Miami centers marginalized stories at the intersections of lived experience, hosted in a space for dialogue. The mission of Green Space Miami is to be a catalyst for action around critical social issues, collaborating with community partners and educational institutions.

WOPHA’s work with the Green Family Foundation Trust began in 2021, when WOPHA launched the inaugural exhibition Female In Focus in collaboration with 1854 Media & British Journal of Photography at Green Space Miami. It was part of a series of city-wide photography programs held in tandem with the 2021 WOPHA Congress. Further support from the Trust was received in 2022 for the exhibition, Strange Territory, at the Betsy Hotel.

For more information about Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA), visit WOPHA.org 

Women Photographers International Archive 2023 programs are made possible with leading support from the Green Family Foundation Trust.

WOPHA operates with support from its dedicated board of directors and community partners. Programs are supported by the Florida Department of State, Division of Art and Culture, and the National Endowment for the Arts.