Carmen Winant

Dec 18, 2024 | thebeliever.net | Carmen Winant

In many ways, I am an unlikely choice of interviewer for a subject like Annie Leibovitz. While I am trained as a photographer and still utilize photography across my work, for the most part I no longer author my own pictures. So I was skeptical when the call came: Were the editors of The Believer sure they wanted me for the job? Wouldn’t the magazine do better with someone more closely aligned with Leibovitz’s work—straddling the art, reportage, and editorial worlds as it does?

Dec 16, 2024 | wmagazine.com | Carmen Winant |Kat Herriman

Carmen Winant is an institutional darling. Museums love the 41-year-old Ohio-based artist because she addresses difficult subjects like domestic violence, but is also able to find beauty in the communities that come together to tackle those issues. Her breakout moment came in 2018, when she stole the show at MoMA’s biannual “New Photography” exhibition with My Birth, an installation that transformed a hallway of the museum into a monument to the labor of childbirth.

May 23, 2024 | lacanchita.mx | Carmen Winant

Feb 23, 2024 | momus.ca | Carmen Winant

What is the visuality of abortion care? Though I am writing this text for a publication based in Los Angeles—once my home for many years—I have now lived in Columbus, Ohio for nearly a decade. As with many of its Midwestern neighbors, my state has been whittling away abortion access since long before I arrived in 2014 (in that year, Ohio had 29 clinics; now there are 10).

Feb 23, 2024 | momus.ca | Carmen Winant

What is the visuality of abortion care? Though I am writing this text for a publication based in Los Angeles—once my home for many…