In this live podcast recording, Gem Fletcher speaks with Lina Geoushy to discuss her work Trailblazers, an inquiry into Egypt’s feminist history using self-portraiture, performance, and archival artefacts to reclaim and inscribe a counter-history. Geoushy, who was born in Cairo in 1990, was deeply influenced by Egyptian cinema made between the 1940s and 1960s, a period known as the Golden Age of cinema in Egypt in which women played powerful roles. These portrayals were in stark contrast to the conservative reality Geoushy witnessed the women around her navigate from the 1990s onwards. Responding to this dissonance, Geoushy has built an archive informed by a feminist impulse, amassing popular cultural material depicting and describing acts of female achievement and struggle. 

Lina Geoushy is an Egyptian social documentary photographer living and working between London and Cairo whose work explores gender, female empowerment and sociopolitical issues. 

Gem Fletcher is a writer and the host of The Messy Truth podcast, a series of candid conversations that unpack the ways in which images shape our world and what it means to be a photographer today. 

The Messy Truth X Peckham 24 is a series of live podcast recordings hosted at this year's festival engaging some of photography’s most dynamic talent in candid conversations about their recent work and wider practice.

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