For the first 'Putting Ourselves in the Picture' initiative in 2021, Fast Forward: Women in Photography worked alongside five progressive-thinking partners to empower groups of refugee and migrant women to use photography in pertinent ways to tell stories about their own lives. The compelling results of the project were exhibited internationally and documented in the book 'Putting Ourselves in the Picture', co-published by Fast Forward and Trolley Books in 2022.
Building on the success of the first project, 'Putting Ourselves in the Picture Part 2: Engaging with Industry' aimed to provide marginalised women with opportunities to develop their stories and to start to connect to professionals within the field of photography.