Women are breadwinners, care takers, head of households, professional leaders, child bearers, young dreamers, decision-makers, critical voices. The daily images of women in these roles of their lives are constantly present around us. Women overcome challenges and set up new milestones every day in the path towards a society with equal rights and opportunities for all.

These images have been depicted in the work of Zimbabwean artists, male and female, in multiple disciplines: film, sculpture, dance, even comic strips, but in the occasion of the International Women’s Day 2010, the International Cultural Group of Zimbabwe in collaboration with the National Gallery present the first exhibition by female photographers ever to be displayed in Zimbabwe.

In this exhibition, emerging and professional Zimbabwean women photographers of diverse interest and background, use their passion for photography to highlight their own approach to gender issues through images of those mothers, daughters, sisters, relatives, friends, neighbours, leaders, strangers and models entered into the scope of their lenses.

This exhibition has also been possible thanks to the instrumental work that Gwanza is doing in Zimbabwe to promote the use of photography as an artistic form of expression.