Sharing a few poems, Bazil presents herself as an archivist of psychogeography, a witness to moments achingly tender and prismatic.
Madeleine Bazil
Madeleine Bazil is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and researcher interested in memory, intimacy, and the ways we navigate environments—real and imagined. Her poetry has appeared in West Branch Magazine, New Contrast, The Seventh Wave, Sonora Review, and elsewhere. She has also contributed essays and criticism to Where The Leaves Fall, Pleiades, ArtThrob, and Split Lip Magazine. Madeleine’s reportage bylines include It’s Freezing in LA! and Icarus Complex Magazine. With Holding Thumbs Productions, she is in development of a feature documentary about feminist writer/activist Olive Schreiner. As Digital Producer for Icarus Complex, she creates visual storytelling that explores climate change’s systemic roots and solutions. Her practice has been supported by Joya: AiR and Union Docs. Madeleine holds an MA in Documentary Arts from the University of Cape Town and an MA in English Literature from Scotland’s University of St Andrews. She lives in Cape Town.
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey