The photo series Portraits of Women was part of the artistic program of the international conference Comrade Woman: Women's Question – A New Approach? which took place at the Student Cultural Center Belgrade in 1978. It was the first autonomous second-wave feminist meeting organized in a non-Western-European context, in a socialist country, bringing together a number of important feminist theorists and artists from both sides of the Iron Curtain. The process of taking the photographs was conceived as a play between documenting and staging – as they were photographed the women could decide how they wanted to be presented by answering four questions: How old are you? What name would you like to have? Where would you like to live? What occupation do you want? The photographed women were at various stages of life, of different experiences, professions, and cultural backgrounds. The series also includes photographs of some of the conference participants and Goranka Matić as Ira Fassbinder.
Makeup artist: Hana Vida Ledinek
Special thanks: Lassana d. o. o., Alenka Smole, RTV Slovenija, Salon Počesalnica, Luka Radaković & Eva Centrih