Research Resources
Documentation on the first decade of Pavilion’s activity is held by Feminist Archive North at the University of Leeds.
The following articles discuss Pavilion’s early years:
— Elizabeth Chaplin, “Visual and Verbal Critique: Feminism and Postmodernism” in Sociology and Visual Representation (1994).
— Shirley Moreno, “The Light Writing on the Wall: The Leeds Pavilion Project”, in Photographic Practices: Towards a Different Image, ed. Stevie Bezencenet and Philip Corrigan (1986)
— Gill Park, “The Pavilion Women’s Photography Centre 1983-1993: Deciphering an ‘incomplete’ [feminist] project” [PhD thesis] (2019)
To the Editor of Amateur Photographer
In 2014 Pavilion produced a 70 minute film with artists Luke Fowler and Mark Fell which interrogates Pavilion’s history as a feminist photography centre and the organisations fragmented archive. Further details →

Poster for The Image in Trouble exhibition at Pavilion, 1984
Pavilion’s darkroom, c.1984