1 May 2026:
Ongoing List of Interesting Reads
Newly added: What if Brighter Isn’t Safer? Re-imagining Urban Lighting Through Women’s Lived Experience22 August 2025:
“Collected Light Vol 1: Women Light Artists” as Inspiration for a University Assignment
Last autumn semester, the book Collected Light Volume One: Women Light Artists was used in the Light and Humanscourse, part of the Architectural Lighting Design master’s programme at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology.28 February 2025:
Book Review of “Collected light -Volume 3 – Women in entertainment lighting”
This is the book I wish existed when I graduated from my lighting design degree in 2003. The book would have been a welcome and empowering read, as I moved into my working life in backstage lighting surrounded then, largely by a landscape of men.
7 February 2025:
Erika Baffico // Ora Blu
Erika Baffico talks about her new innovation and research project “ora blu” - a particular tone of blue found just before sunset.
7 February 2025:
Carla Jardim // The Flaming Beacon // Now You See Me (do you?)
Carla Jardim on light and dark skin tones throughout history and how they have been interpreted in different times and fields.
8 March 2024:
WIL Global Gathering Survey Results
WIL launched a survey aiming to examine the lighting profession in the context of the theme of International Women’s Day 2023; Embracing Equity. Here are the results!9 December 2023:
Women Working in Sales and Manufacturing
131 years. That’s how long it will take us to achieve Gender Parity, according to the World Economic Forum. Gender Parity being the equal contribution of women and men to every dimension of life, both Public and Private.
1 December 2023:
R.A.W.: Anita Rosenberger
Interview with Anita Rosenberger from the Lights in Alingsås workshop
3 November 2023:
R.A.W Consuelo Miranda Barroso
Consuelo is one of the enthusiasts of the Alingsas Energi team and a receipient of the Silhouette mentorship.
17 June 2023:
Live Light Podcast
The Live Light Podcast is brought to you by two curious minds in the lighting design field Maryam Aghajani and Dana Moazenie. The primary aim of this podcast is to have an open conversation with fellow lighties and discuss the dark spots within this field.21 April 2023:
Addressing Harassment & Bullying in Business Meetings
Mahdis Aliasgari share a personal experience, hoping to raise Awareness of Bullying and Harassment at meetings.
3 March 2023:
R.A.W Victória Loureiro
Following a very enriching experience at IALD Enlighten Americas 22, we noticed a high interest in the perception of safety in the city at night time.
23 February 2023:
Pretty in Pink on a Dark Street
The live performance, Pretty in Pink on a Dark Street, is a collaboration between designer Marina Menéndez-Pidal and dance artist Anastasia Bezruchko. The work is just as much about femininity as it is about the role lighting plays at night.
4 February 2023:
R.A.W Carlotta Premazzi
Carlotta Premazzi, who interacts and expresses herself with the luminous medium in a multipurpose way, is an example for those who want to make the visual stimulus evolve into a real aesthetic experience of the metaverse.15 August 2022:
1ST INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF LIGHT ART
Paulina Villalobos, the WIL ambassador in Chile speaks with UK based Liz West, Aleksandra Stratimirovic in Sweden and Jen Lewin in the USA in an online session.
15 July 2022:
R.A.W: Aleksandra Stratimirovich
Aleksandra creates site-specific works in public spaces and is also co-founder of the Lighting Guerrilla Festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and artistic director of the Belgrade Light Festival in Serbia.
6 April 2022:
Pioneers of Light: a History of Women in Lighting Design
Veteran lighting designers Anne Militello and Beverly Emmons discuss the history of the female pioneers who blazed new trails to create the field of lighting design.25 March 2022:
Women’s Search for Equity
This presentation by Lauren Dandridge focuses on the delineation of equality and equity and how we can use the past few years as a guide for changing the gender system to allow women to bring more of their whole selves to the workplace.25 March 2022:
Press Coverage
Ongoing list of Press Coverage on the WIL project20 December 2021:
2021 WIL Activities
As 2021 draws to a close and we can put all the challenges of the year behind us, we look back proudly on what the WIL community has achieved and also forward with excitement to our plans for 2022.
17 November 2021:
R.A.W: CAMILA GRIMALDI
A journey from stage lighting design to event production through art curation: from Brazil to Europe, this is the story of an illuminated professional.
20 September 2021:
#womeninlightingUKfacts
The majority of us in the UK lighting industry believe there is a fair gender balance in our workplaces. Is it true?
29 July 2021:
R.A.W: Gae Aulenti
Gae Aulenti was one of the few women designing in postwar Italy, and led an entirely new type of design philosophy ecncouraging a revival of individuality and craft.
9 April 2021:
Logo competition - WIL Mexico
WIL Mexico held a competition to create a new version of the WIL Logo specifically for local activities, and also created an amazing booklet inspired by UN Women with 12 small actions with big impacts to help us get to equality.
9 April 2021:
R.A.W: Jacqueline Hen
An interview with Jacqueline Hen, a light magician and winner of International Light Art Award 2019 for her installation ‘LIGHT HIGH’.
2 April 2021:
History of Women in Lighting
WIL ambassador for Poland, Karolina and R.A.W bloggers Martina and Dipali have launched a survey to help create a history (‘herstory’) of Women in Lighting.
18 February 2021:
WIL Russia Brochure
The WIL Russia group has created a book profiling women working in lighting in Russia.
15 January 2021:
R.A.W: Marta Viana
Performer, choreographer, film-maker and light technician, Marta Viana started to experiment with stage lighting whilst getting educated in dance arts.26 November 2020:
R.A.W Talks
Our first R.A.W TALKS live chat with the R.A.W Series Bloggers: Dipali Shirsat and Martina Frattura, moderated by Katia Kolovea.16 November 2020:
Women’s rights: Are we there yet?
Foteini Kyriakidou on abortion rights
13 November 2020:
R.A.W: Marina Zumi
Marina Zumi is a talented street artist, with a background in fashion design. Argentinian native and Berlin based, she is known for her extra large, colourful murals covering entire buildings in cosmic-like illustrations.
14 October 2020:
Night-time Traveller
Night-time Traveller is an initiative which inquires about those specific needs that afflict us as women.
28 August 2020:
R.A.W: Shirley Prendergast
“Good lighting often goes unnoticed by the audience” – Shirley Prendergast was an inspiration to many African-American lighting designers. Her trailblazing work has paved way for the upcoming generation of designers.
22 May 2020:
R.A.W: Christina Kamma
Mixing design and technology and electricity, theory and practice, had attracted Christina Kamma in order to be able to handle almost any project for the entire process from concept to delivery.
22 May 2020:
R.A.W TALKS
Our first R.A.W TALKS live chat with the R.A.W Series Bloggers: Dipali Shirsat and Martina Frattura, moderated by Katia Kolovea.
15 May 2020:
#SOS Lighting
WIL Ambassador Giorgia Brusemini has started a series of mini interviews brilliantly called #SOS Lighting to raise the awareness of the importance of good lighting in our homes.
17 April 2020:
R.A.W: Motoko Ishii
Motoko Ishii started her firm in a time when nobody understood the importance of lighting design in Japan and the culture did not completely accept female designers. Her work on the Tokyo Tower started the change.23 March 2020:
STAGE 0 – An awareness story
Foteini Kyriakidou shares her experience with breast cancer.
13 March 2020:
Laura’s Story… Health, Light and Paint
Laura Bayliss describes her professional journey from lighting director to light artist, while coping with neurological, muscular and autoimmune disorders.
8 March 2020:
8 Mar 2020 // International Women’s Day: #WILforEqual
Join the International campaign EachforEqual by posting a picture using the equal sign with your hands.7 March 2020:
The Women in Lighting Project – Year One!
Celebrating the one year anniversary of the Women in Lighting project!
28 February 2020:
Drink spiking. My experience. A very frightening 48 hours.
Sophie Hoyal recalls her experience of drink spiking at an industry event
28 February 2020:
The Chocolate Story
Martina Frattura recounts her experience with premature forced menopause
31 January 2020:
R.A.W: Tamar Frank
Article about Tamar Frank from Lightspace, known for installations like Interlaced.
23 January 2020:
R.A.W: Sheila Kennedy
Kennedy is described as an “insightful and original thinker who is designing new ways of working, learning, leading and innovating”.
13 December 2019:
R.A.W: Jennifer Veitch
Dr. Jennifer Veitch believes that it takes cooperation: vision science, cognitive psychology, and physiology together for developing the basic knowledge about lighting.
8 November 2019:
R.A.W: Jean Rosenthal
Jean Rosenthal (1912-1969) a pioneer in the field of Theatre Lighting Design, it was during her thirty-three year career that the Lighting Designer joined the Scene and Costume Designer as a member of the production team.
8 November 2019:
WIL in Asia
As part of the Asia trip, we did 13 interviews with amazing female designers in four different countries and met up with some of our ambassadors.
27 September 2019:
R.A.W: Eliza Alexandropoulou
Eliza's talent doesn’t rely on an strong academic background only, but also on her ability to explore, often rupturing the stage with non-conventional aesthetic suggestions.6 September 2019:
R.A.W Series
The R.A.W series is a set of blogs that will expose the trailblazing stories of our chosen ‘Radical' and ‘Ardent’ Women in Lighting for bringing pivotal change in the industry with their passion for light. We are looking to offer a fresh perspective on the contributions that these women have…
30 August 2019:
International Day of Light 2019
WIL created a social media campaign on the International Day of Light on May 16th where we asked women to post a shadow photo of themselves and a male colleague.2 August 2019:
Accidental Feminist
Emilio Hernandez from Nulty on his discovery of being feminist, and some inspirational and easily digestible podcasts and videos.
17 July 2019:
PLDC Award at Large
We are very proud to announce Women In Lighting is shortlisted for the PLDC 2019 Award at Large!
25 June 2019:
WIL at Clerkenwell Design Week
"Women In Design" was hosted by WIL UK Ambassador Greta Smetoniute, with panelists Lauren Lever, Katia Kolovea, Faye Robinson and Anna Kharchenkova.
25 May 2019:
ILP and Women in lighting
The Institution of Lighting Professionals (ILP) supports the aim of the Women In Lighting platform to increase the profile of successful women working in lighting design to help encourage, support and inspire the next generation.17 May 2019:
New Partnerships!
Women in Lighting is proud to be supported PLDC, ASBAI, APDI, STIR & Lighttecture.
