Catrien Ariëns

Documentary photography and video

Women on the Move

1978 – 1981  

Photographs commissioned by the National History section of the Rijksmuseum.

The photographs were exhibited in the museum.

Selfportrait: The Womens’s Movement in the 1980’s was published by the feminist Publisher, Sara. In the forward was written “Photographing this awareness of women was for us a very personal and sometimes an emotional experience. ”The women in the photographs, who are fighting for their individual development and for a society in which women are no longer surpressed, we are those women too.

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