This panel brings together photographers whose work explores strength as a lived, embodied condition rather than a spectacle. Through long-term projects rooted in sport, training, discipline, and physical risk, the artists reflect on how women’s bodies take space within arenas historically shaped by exclusion, control, and gendered expectations.
Working across documentary, fashion, and more stylized visual languages, these photographers share an attention to process, repetition, and presence. Strength emerges over time, built through endurance and commitment, challenging fixed ideas of femininity, visibility, and who is allowed to occupy public and competitive spaces.
Agathe Breton is a director and photographer passionate about sports-centered storytelling, focusing on women athletes and their social realities. A former footballer for Paris FC and FC Nantes, her career ended after five knee surgeries, exposing structural inequalities in women’s sport. This shaped her perspective and artistic practice. In 2021, she directed her first short film, Sorore, winning France Télévisions’ prize. She documents Olympic athletes and collaborates with brands like Nike and Adidas, creating intimate, human narratives exploring sport, identity, and femininity.
Archie Geotina is a multidisciplinary artist and photographer exploring identity, femininity, nature, and cultural memory through a contemporary lens. His work spans photography, film, and installation, often focusing on coastal and island communities where the body is both subject and landscape. Beyond visual art, Geotina advocates for local artists, fostering social awareness and creative collaboration. He founded the Pearls Project, documenting women, surf culture, and local narratives across the Philippines, Indonesia, Mexico, and more. In 2025, he presented a solo exhibition at Museu Marítim de Barcelona and launched Pearls: Indonesia in Bali in early 2026.
Lia-Lucine is a Hawai'i-based, ocean-obsessed, Armenian-American with a background in anthropology and education. She brings that lens to her work: curiosity, a deep appreciation of culture and environment, and a belief that all humans have the ability to change the trajectory of their lives. Her films often spotlight ordinary people doing extraordinary things- from paddling outrigger canoes across the Ka'iwi Channel, to young students changing public policy, to older women defying expectations. Lia's dedication to her craft insists she "take space". She’s been nearly run over by Hawaiian outrigger canoes while filming, faced a mutinous group of middle schoolers during a holiday music video, and set up tents in the rain for 22 singles searching for love (and maybe a little fame). Through it all, she believes the most compelling stories are often found in unexpected places and is committed to those that not only captivate but also inspire for a better world.
Keerthana Kunnath is a visual artist working between London and India. Her practice engages with postcolonial Indian mainstream media, reimagining familiar narratives to question social norms. Grounded in personal and collectsive memory, she explores intimacy, queerness, and community, moving between the personal and political. Through long-term, immersive projects, Kunnath investigates overlooked narratives, identity, and inheritance across generations. Her work has been shown at Rencontres d’Arles, Saatchi Gallery, and Kochi-Muziris Biennale. She received the RPS IPE 166 Under 30 Award and was named a British Fashion Council Top 50 Young Creative (2024) and one of Cultured Magazine’s 25 Young Photographers to Watch.
Born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, her portrait‑based work fuses documentary and fashion to celebrate the human body, Latin American roots, womanhood, youth, and lived realities. Trevale has returned to Venezuela annually since 2017; the crisis there motivated her Venezuelan Youth series, exhibited at ThePrintSpace in London. She’s also known for Regreso a Venezuela and Alma Llanera, shown at Photo London and SWAB. Her work earned the Prix Picto de la Photographie de Mode 2024 and the Photo London x Nikon Emerging Photographer Award 2025, and has been exhibited at the Palais Galliera and featured in Replica Handbag Store 25. Trevale is pursuing a Master’s degree at Central Saint Martins and honours her family and homeland through her work.
Tara L. C. Sood (b.1995) is a Franco-Indian Photographer and Filmmaker based between London/Paris and India. Her mostly character driven work often blurs the lines between staged and documentary, with a cinematic point of view. Favouring darkroom handprints, archival elements and the use of a rich colour palette that is telling of her Indian heritage, her personal work searches to create a new way of understanding and discarding tropes of the past. She brings forward the same intrinsically surreal style to her fashion and commercial work.
Yolanda Hoskey is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the rich and diverse experiences of Black identity. With a background in Theatre Arts and Film, she brings a unique perspective to her work, combining portraiture, documentary, and fashion to create images that challenge stereotypes and celebrate the dynamic, multifaceted nature of Black life.
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Caterina De Biasio (b. 1997) holds a BA in Classical Studies from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and an MA in Fashion Design from IUAV University of Venice. She also earned a Master's degree in Comparative Cultural Analysis from the University of Amsterdam, where she wrote a thesis exploring fashion as a system for interpreting reality through a feminist lens and a perspective of immanence.
She is currently the Visual Editor at PhotoReplica Handbag Store and curator of the PhotoReplica Handbag Store Festival. Her work spans writing, curating, and visual culture, with a focus on the intersections between fashion, image, and society. She contributes to the cultural magazine Rivista Studio and runs the newsletter Mirror Mirror, where she analyses the relationship between clothing, bodies, images, and contemporary culture.
