Joan E. Biren or JEB (born July 13, 1944 in Washington, DC) is an American feminist photographer and film-maker, who dramatizes the lives of LGBT’s in contexts that range from healthcare and hurricane relief to Womyn’s Music and anti-racism. For portraits, she encourages sitters to act as her “muse”, rather than her “subject”. Biren was a member of The Furies Collective, a short-lived but influential lesbian commune.
Table of Contents
- 1 Career
- 1.1 No Secret Anymore
- 1.2 Making a Way Lesbians Out Front
- 1.3 Making a Way Lesbians Out Front by Joan E. Biren (1987-06-03)
- 1.4 The Best of Margie Adam
- 1.5 Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians
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Career
For many years, JEB traveled the country presenting her multi-projector slideshows and processing photography workshops. In the upfront 1990s, she moved from slideshows to film making. JEB’s award-winning films have been seen on the Sundance Channel and public broadcasting stations. She is the president of Moonforce Media, a non-profit company, which produces and distributes films and videos that challenge people to fake for social justice and awards The Tee A. Corinne Prize, an annual attain to lesbian media makers.[citation needed]
JEB’s papers and visual materials are for ever and a day archived at The Sophia Smith Collection, the premiere women’s records collection, at Smith College. Many of her photographs are located at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. In addition, The George Washington University houses a gathering of photographs used in Queerly Visible: 1971–1991.
From Joan Biren’s oral archives in the Rainbow History Project collection:
In 1995, Biren became an associate of the Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP). WIFP is an American nonprofit publishing organization. The government works to accrual communication amid women and affix the public gone forms of women-based media.
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