In September, the Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) opened its first physical space at Green Space Miami on the city’s Upper East Side. Founded by the curator Aldeide Delgado and the artist Francisco Masó in 2018, WOPHA is dedicated to researching, promoting, supporting and educating the public about the contributions to Modern and contemporary art of women and non-binary photographers. Following several years of nomadic collaborations with institutions in the US and abroad, WOPHA has established a home for its exhibitions, as well as space for its public library, archive and community programmes. The Green Family Foundation Trust, which has worked with WOPHA for years, owns Green Space Miami and is lending its space to the photography organisation until December 2026.
“Women Photographers International Archive fills a critical void in the field of photography,” Delgado says, “establishing an archive for future generations that preserves women photographers’ work while serving as a driving force for innovative thinking and dialogue about their role in the photographic arts.”
tide lines of the frame at Green Space Miami features works by 2025 Women Photographers International Archive artists-in-residence Kat Thompson and Nathyfa Michel, curated by cecilia gonzález godino, interim associate curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Photos by Zaire Aranguren. Courtesy of Women Photographers International Archive
WOPHA’s inaugural exhibition at Green Space Miami, tide lines of the frame (until 14 December), brings together works by its 2025 artists-in-residence Kat Thompson and Nathyfa Michel. Both of Caribbean descent, Thompson and Michel use personal archives and speculative histories to explore the politics of image-making in the Caribbean and its diaspora. The two-person show, curated by Cecilia González Godino of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, emphases a view of the Caribbean as more than just a beautiful landscape. This creates a direct dialogue with one of WOPHA’s mains objectives at Green Space Miami—broadening Miami’s overgeneralised image as a holiday destination. Through multidimensional representations of ecosystems, both Thompson and Michel consider how bodies, objects and landscapes all carry the weight of what has been silenced, commodified or denied.
Future WOPHA exhibitions at Green Space Miami will include a US debut next spring of works by Julia Chambí López (1919–2003), the first Peruvian woman photographer of Quechua descent. In the autumn, the space will present a feminist intervention into the archive of Bunny Yeager (1929–2014), a pioneering local photographer, pin-up model and visual artist who transformed fashion and erotic photography by reclaiming agency and authorship through innovative self-portraiture and collaborations with iconic models like Bettie Page.
