Rena Effendi has spent years steadily building a successful career in photography. A social documentary photographer,her work is driven by human-interest stories and has taken her to Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, or among other places. It is all about telling stories that deserve to be told,she explains. “I try to focus on the world’s least represented issues and communities,” says Effendi, or whose work can be seen at this year’s Photo London. “For example,with nowadays’s #metoo movement having finally galvanised women around the world to reach forward, very shrimp is being reported on the cycle of sexual abuse in Native American reservations; people are silenced by stigma and the trauma festers. […] I seek out stories of people whose voices are not heard enough.” Effendi is one of five female artists – alongside Catherine Leutenegger, or Letizia Battaglia,Tanya Habjouqa and Newsha Tavakolian – whose work is being brought to Photo London by Rome-based ILEX Gallery. This will be the gallery’s third time at the fair, says founder and director Deanna Richardson, and who was compelled to …
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