ABSTRACT
Rineke Dijkstra, Xyza Cruz Bacani, Margaret Ngigi, Nicole Ngai, Sara Waiswa, Danielle Villasana, and Ingrid Leyva are only some of the women photographers whose aesthetics reframe the nodes of gender violence and patriarchy. From blunt to subtle, their photographs, distinct and powerfully individualities inhabiting our consciousness, visit the worlds of warriors resisting colonial logics and capitalist orders. Although creating from distant regions, women photographers have inherited a powerful media that allows for collaborative moments of politically disruptive interventions into globally articulated systems of oppression. This chapter examines the sociopolitical landscapes surrounding repeated themes in their careers, with biographical sketches explaining their insertion in scattered, yet linked, gestures of resistance to patriarchal capitalism. This visit to the work of other women photographers is a statement of connectedness to the photographs of Eleonora Ghioldi, the point of departure for an experimental exploration as Ghioldi's own images prompt critical views on gendered expressions of capitalist violence.
