Birthe Havmøller/Feminine Moments visited: ‘We Others’ at the Photographer’s Gallery in London in May 2026. Here are my snapshots from the landmark exhibition of early lesbian portraits by Donna Gottschalk.
Category: Photography
We Others. Photographer: Donna Gottschalk. Edit: Nathalie Chapuis, assisted by Camille Cibot. Texts: Hélène Giannecchini, Julie Héraut, Carla Williams. Publisher: LE BAL / Atelier EXB, 2025.
Exhibition view images from ‘Catherine Opie: To Be Seen’ at the National Portrait Gallery in London, May 2026, by Birthe Havmøller/Feminine Moments.
Video (1:59:1): A full lecture by Catherine Opie, recorded live at the Neue Nationalgalerie on February 19, 2026.
Marilyn Minter on Reclaiming the Female Gaze and Dismantling Shame | Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky
Video (58:06): Artist and (queer) feminist Marilyn Minter in conversation with podcast host Monica Lewinsky.
Video (38:55): A conversation between Collier Schorr and Michael Clegg (of Clegg & Guttmann) about Schorr’s exhibition Day for Night (1992/2021) and their past collaboration. KOW podcast 6, 2021.
Video (3:47): American photographer Donna Gottschalk, 76, has spent her life photographing the intimacy of those around her, expecially her lesbian friends.
Collier Schorr: Problems and other stories
Until April 7, 2026
at Modern Art in Paris, France.
We Others: Donna Gottschalk and Hélène Giannecchini
Fri 06 Mar 2026 – Sun 07 Jun 2026
The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK
Video (3:06): Writer and curator, Hélène Giannecchini talking about the background for the exhibition and the book about Donna Gottschalk.
Video (8:25): THE REINCARNATION (art video, 2022) by Lill-Ann Chepstow-Lusty is a tribute to Marie Høeg (1866-1949) and Bolette Berg (1872-1944), featuring Log Lady Lusty.
Video (8:01): A flip through Annie Leibovitz: Portraits 2005–2016 (Taschen, 2017).
Video (13:07): A leaf through the book, Annie Leibovitz – Wonderland (Phaidon Press, 2021).
Video (7:25): Annie Leibovitz shares moments behind photographing some of the world’s most influential women, now published in the reissues of her book Women.
Lill-Ann Chepstow-Lusty: Tilbakeblikk, 7-22 February, 2026 at Camera Lucida, Porsgrunn, Norway.
Video (43:54): Miwa Messer in conversation with Annie Leibovitz about her book Women (Phaidon, 2025) which is now in two volumes.
Video (1:14.24): In this episode of Fashion Neurosis, Bella Freud and Annie Leibovitz discuss (her late partner) Susan Sontag, the magic of dance, and the Rolling Stones.
Video (22:47): Collin Klugbauer, co-curator of the retrospective exhibition ‘Burning down the Patriarchy. The Berlin women and lesbians’ scene photographed by Petra Gall’ talks about the lesbian photographer Petra Gall (1955-2018).
The exhibition runs through February 23 2026 at Schwules Museum Berlin, Germany.
Video (15.36): Catherine Opie on LGBTQ visibility and becoming an artist, an interview by Artforum (2025).
“33 st mf” is a handmade artist’s book about Danish artist and queer woman Birthe Havmøller’s home, a studio flat.
Lesbian Mary Steen (1856-1939) was a Danish royal court photographer and feminist.