Widening the Lens (there will be typos)

When a Single Frame Is Not Possible

What a Reading of Zoe Leonard's I Want a President might teach the Democratic Party

Sep 1 • Lesly Deschler Canossi

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July 2026

You're invited! Come see what we've been creating in Women's Critique Collective: Insight & Exchange

Join in photography conversation in good company, online artist talk Thursday, July 16th at 7pm EST

Jul 14 • Lesly Deschler Canossi

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19th-Century Photo Processes, and the Body as Site

Site:Body with Natali Bravo-Barbee and Judit German-Heins

Jul 7 • Lesly Deschler Canossi

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June 2026

Carried by Hand: What the AI Inevitability Argument Leaves Out

Photography, Water, and the Fight That Is Coming

Jun 2 • Lesly Deschler Canossi

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April 2026

Framing Motherhood

On estrangement, care, and art's most persistent taboo

Apr 27 • Lesly Deschler Canossi

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The Image Belongs to Her

On Doula Cherise Doyley, documentary photography, and the long work of restoring what institutional violence flattens

Apr 9 • Lesly Deschler Canossi

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March 2026

Illustrating the Gap: How to Document What Cannot Be Shown

Uprootedness, a philosopher, a filmmaker and a photographer

Mar 24 • Lesly Deschler Canossi

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Virginia Woolf and the Image of Distraction

When the spectacle is loud enough, thinking feels beside the point

Mar 10 • Lesly Deschler Canossi

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Pictures & Visual Literacy: Part 4 in a Series for the AI Age

The Extraordinary Vision of Hannah Maynard

Mar 6 • Lesly Deschler Canossi

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Letters, Lipstick, and Pictures

A conversation with Lydia Panas on Letters to My Mother, and an invitation to meet the artist in real time

Mar 3 • Lesly Deschler Canossi

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February 2026

Your North Star Does Not Move

What the Epstein files, a lawyer on Instagram, images and a fixed star in the sky have to do with each other

Feb 24 • Lesly Deschler Canossi

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Pictures & Visual Literacy: Part 3 in a Series for the AI Age

The Expert Who Could Not See, Two Working-Class Girls, a Century of Erasure, and the AI We Are Building Now

Feb 20 • Lesly Deschler Canossi

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