Part of the MCCS image making lecture series. Åsa Johannesson will talk about her photography and writing practice.

Åsa Johannesson is an artist working across photography, installation, and writing. Her practice concerns the relationship between queerness, representation, and material knowledge production. She has exhibited her work internationally, including at Centrum för fotografi (Stockholm), Queer Britain (London), Landskrona Foto (Landskrona), Dyson Gallery (London) and FutureLab (Shanghai). Åsa’s work has been written about in the books Photography: A Queer History and Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activism, and the journals Philosophy of Photography, British Journal of Photography, Yes & No, and Zine. She is based in London, UK and her hometown Växjö, Sweden.

With her writing Åsa intersects theoretical concepts from feminist and queer theory, new materialism with the logic of studio practice. Her first book, the research monograph Queer Methodology for Photography, was published by Routledge in February 2024. Recent essays include ‘Theorising Skin: Queer Readings of Photography’ and ‘Nonbinary Difference: Dionysus, Arianna, and the Fictive Arts of Museum Photography’ (co-written with Clair Le Couteur). Åsa has written about her photographic practice for Ilford. Her first collection of poetry, And I wanted to see it: my queerness in the best light, is a collaborative work produced together with her sitters and is forthcoming (publisher TBC).

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