Photographing Myself: Bunny Yeager – 2026 WOPHA Exhibition

Photographing Myself: Bunny Yeager [in Dialogue with Aldeide Delgado, Naomi Fisher,
and Val Souza] presents a feminist intervention by curator Aldeide Delgado into How I
Photograph Myself (1964), a landmark photobook by pioneering Miami-based
photographer Bunny Yeager (1929–2014).

Yeager began her career as a pin-up model before establishing herself as a photographer in the 1950s. Moving across photography, modeling, writing, filmmaking,
and fashion, she became one of the most influential figures in American photography of the 1950s and 1960s.

In How I Photograph Myself, Yeager turned the camera toward herself, staging her
image through clothing, makeup, hairstyles, poses, props, and locations. Taking the
book as its point of departure, the exhibition presents selected and intervened
fragments from the publication, contextualizing Yeager’s photoperformative practice
through her own voice and reconsidering her legacy through questions of agency,
self-representation, the male gaze, and female spectatorship.

Yeager’s work enters into dialogue with contemporary artists Naomi Fisher and Val
Souza, whose practices explore desire, feminism, performance, the body, and visual
culture. The exhibition presents rarely seen work by Miami-based Fisher and marks the first presentation of Brazilian artist Val Souza’s work in the United States.

About The Artists

Bunny Yeager

Bunny Yeager was a model, photographer, and writer whose pictures of Bettie Page brought both women to fame in 1954. She pioneered a new genre of portraiture through sensual images of the girl next door and self-portraits, using her creativity and independence to empower women to control their own representation.

Naomi Fisher

Naomi Fisher explores ecology and activism through a feminist lens, inspired by her
tropical surroundings and childhood expeditions to the laboratory of her Botanist father.
Her research tracks the continuous presence of natural forms in material culture, the power of surrealism and speculative fiction, and green-tech as material and
communication strategy.

Val Souza

Val Souza is a researcher and artist combining found images, photography, and performance. Her artistic practice is grounded in the historical iconographies representing Black women. Through the creation of self-portraits, her work contrasts Brazilian social imagery with notions of abundance and joy.

About The Curator

Aldeide Delgado

Aldeide Delgado is a Cuban-born, Miami-based art historian, curator, and Founder & Director of WOPHA. Her research advances feminist and decolonial approaches to photography through exhibitions, publications, and international collaborations. She launched the Caribbean Photography Research Group to advance research and dialogue on photography from the Caribbean and its diasporas.

About The Organization

Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded by Latinx art historian and curator Aldeide Delgado to research, promote, support, and educate on the contributions of women and non-binary photographers to modern and contemporary art in order to rewrite the artistic canon and provoke social change. WOPHA fosters a more diverse and equitable world by providing a permanent archive for future generations that preserves, documents, and promotes women photographers’ work while being a driving force for innovative thinking and discussion about the role of women in photographic arts.

About The Gallery

Green Space Miami is the Green Family Foundation Trust’s art space and platform for the discovery, promotion and documentation of artists, creatives, and cultures of the communities in Miami-Dade County.

Follow @wophafoundation @greenspacemiami

For more information, contact:
Raquel Villar-Pérez, WOPHA Editorial & Communications Manager
rvillarperez@wopha.org