Carol Newhouse is a cofounder of the WomanShare Collective outside of Grants Pass, Oregon, and a key contributor to the lesbian photography movement of the 1970s and 80s. Her work has been published in Amazon Quarterly, Blatant Image,  WomanSpirit, and The Woman’s Carpentry Book (Doubleday, 1980), among other periodicals of the women’s liberation and LGBTQIA+ movements. She held an internship at the National Film Board of Canada from 1969-1970 and studied social justice documentary photography and video production. 

Inspired by the women’s movement in the 1970s – of which she was a part – Newhouse found her creative bent for photography and writing. Since that time, she has been documenting women’s lives and loves. Drawing largely from strategies in documentary and experimental portraiture, Newhouse’s work engages themes of gender identity expression, the human interface with nature, and queer ecology.

In what ways is joy a meaningful queer subject? What is the relationship of feminist world building and photography? How can photographic storytelling enable us to re-imagine our futures?

Newhouse has been a clinical social worker and educator for more than thirty years; she is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.