Girl on Girl : Art and Photography in the Age of the Female Gaze

How 40 women artists are redefining the ways we look at women while deconstructing, remixing and re-evaluating the gaze

Girl on Girl looks at how women are using photography, the internet and the female gaze to explore self–image and female identity in contemporary art.

A new generation of women is taking the art world – online and offline – by storm. In an image–obsessed culture saturated with social media, these 40 artists are using photography and the female gaze to redefine the fields of fashion, art, advertising and photojournalism, making a profound impact on our visual world.

Forty artists are featured, all of whose principal subject matter is either themselves or other women. Each is accompanied by a short profile based on personal interviews with the author, giving a fascinating insight into this exciting shift in female creativity.

"Charlotte Jansen has brought together some of the finest female photographers of our generation" – Refinery29

"A very important book" – Vogue Italia

"Young female artists are using photography and social media to explore issues of female identity. This gorgeous book introduces 40 of them, in an investigation of photography and the female gaze."– Eva Wiseman, Observer Magazine

Features work by

Aneta Bartos

Tonje Bøe Birkeland

Nakeya Brown

Juno Calypso

Anja Carr

Amanda Charchian

Petra Collins

Maisie Cousins

Nathalie Daoust

Shae DeTar

Lalla Essaydi

Maya Fuhr

Yaeli Gabriely

Petrina Hicks

Ayana V. Jackson

Lebohang Kganye

Lilia Li–Mi–Yan

Pixy Liao

Alexandra Marzella

Rania Matar

Izumi Miyazaki

Monika Mogi

Zanele Muholi

Mihaela Noroc

Birthe Piontek

Elizabeth Renstrom

Marianna Rothen

Phebe Schmidt

Leah Schrager

Molly Soda

Johanna Stickland

Iiu Susiraja

Deanna Templeton

Yvonne Todd

Mayan Toledano

Jaimie Warren

Isabelle Wenzel

Aviya Wyse

Jessica Yatrofsky

Pinar Yolaçan