“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.”
— Joan Miro
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A continuation of my 2021 blogs. A photo taken that has captured my attention longer than others. This is the celebrate 50 years since women were allowed to vote in Switzerland. It captures the suffragettes from the victorian era to the ones in the 1960s and 70s in Switzerland.
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There are tons of topics on women empowerment, but I believe one of the catalysts if not the catalyst for today’s policies, discourse and decisions came about as a result of these brave, sacrificial women – The Suffragettes, whom we should celebrate, admire and importantly thank.
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It’s been 106 years since the death of Emily Wilding Davison and individuals today equate the suffragettes movement gaining world recognition with the event of her death and the period that was 1900s. In fact the suffragettes movement continued into the 70s and in Appenzell, Switzerland until 1990. Women in Switzerland were only granted the right to vote on a federal and national level in 1971. A recent movie documenting the plight of the suffragettes, “Die göttliche Ordnung”, has rightly been submitted for nomination for an Oscar in the best foreign language film category. We were thrilled to read about this as it coincided with this current project. Although the project started well before our knowledge of the submission or even the film itself, it gave us further momentum to complete the project in time. I with an artist developed emotive images of the suffragettes to hopefully add to the story of the strength, tenacity and importantly the sacrifices these women made in order for today’s women to have the vote. Something many take for granted. It was a major struggle in the early 1900s and
here in Switzerland in the 1970s.
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