Uncovering queer histories.
Tee A. Corinne and Donna Gottschalk archives

Charlotte Flint and Hélène Giannecchini will recount their respective work to uncover the unpublished archives of US lesbian photographers Tee A. Corinne and Donna Gottschalk. Their images shed light on the stories, friendships, and activism stimulated by queer communities in the 1970s and 1980s. 

Tee A. Corinne, Untitled, 1965 - Courtesy Webber

Charlotte Flint is a curator, editor and writer based in London whose research explores photography, feminism, and queer activism. She is currently a Senior Editor at Phaidon and published her first book Tee A. Corinne: A forest fire between us with MACK in Summer 2024. She has held curatorial positions at the Hayward Gallery, the Barbican Art Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum, and has co-developed projects with the Feminist Library, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, and University College London. 

Hélène Giannecchini is a writer and curator, specialising in the relationship between text and image. She holds a PHD in literature and is a member of the CRAL – Centre de recherches sur les arts et le langage – (EHESS/CNRS). In 2014 she published Une Image peut-être vraie. Alix Cléo Roubaud [translation by Theano Petrou, A Portrait in pieces, Sylph edition, 2023] with Seuil and directed the Alix Cléo Roubaud retrospective at the Bibliothèque nationale de France that same year. Her following novel, Voir de ses propres yeux [See With Your Own Eyes], was published in January 2020. Her new book Un désir démesuré d’amitié was released in 2024. She was a resident of Villa Médicis in 2018-2019, of Villa Albertine in 2022 and recipient of the Lewis Baltz research Fund in 2023. She is curating the first exhibition of Donna Gottschalk in Europe, that will take place at Le Bal in june 2025.

Credits : © Bénédicte Roscot

Clara Bouveresse is a photography historian and associate professor at the University of Evry/Paris Saclay. She holds a PhD from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne university. She published in 2017 with Flammarion her doctoral research on the history of Magnum Photos' cooperative. In 2019, she curated the exhibition Unretouched Women. Eve Arnold, Abigail Heyman, Susan Meiselas at the Rencontres d'Arles photography festival, with a catalogue published by Actes Sud. She also published in the Photo File collection (Thames&Hudson, Actes Sud) the three volumes dedicated to women photographers and a book of "bedside photographs" (2023).