Joanna Lipper is an award-winning filmmaker, photographer, author, and lecturer whose work moves between documentary practice, photography, writing, and narrative cinema. Across these mediums she explores how images circulate through social, political, and psychological landscapes. Lipper holds a PhD in Women’s Studies. As a Lecturer, she taught Using Film for Social Change at Harvard University.
Her photography has been exhibited at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, International Museum of Women, Photo De Mer in Vannes, France, the Gallery of African Art in London, and the International Women’s Forum in Johannesburg. She is currently a member of the inaugural one-year programme at the Athens Photo Research Center, where she is developing a new body of work, Kakuremino.
Lipper has directed four films, including the documentary The Supreme Price, which traces the evolution of Nigeria’s pro-democracy movement and the role of women in political leadership. The film received the Gucci Tribeca Spotlighting Women Documentary Award, was named Best Documentary at the Africa International Film Festival and was nominated for a Grierson Award.
She is the author of the nationally acclaimed book Growing Up Fast (Picador), a narrative nonfiction work featuring thirty of her photographs.
