Life Between Islands

Caribbean-British Art comes to Tate Britain

Heroines Liz Johnson Artur, Joy Gregory, Roshini Kempadoo, Marcia Michael and Ingrid Pollard are featured in new exhibition, Life Between Islands, at Tate Britain until April 3, 2022

Marilyn Stafford

The life and career of

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Hundred Heroines’s Fanny Beckman revisits photographer Marilyn Stafford to discuss her decades spanning career

Hélène Binet

Light Lines: The Architectural Photographs of

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Swiss-French architectural photographer Hélène Binet is featured in a solo show at Royal Academy of Arts, London until Jan 23, 2022

Marta Hoepffner

German photographer (1912–2000)

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Born into an avant-garde family as the niece of Dadaist Hugo Ball, Marta Hoepffner studied modernist painting, graphics, and photography at the Frankfurt Art School from 1929 to 1933 under German abstract artist Willi Baumeister.

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Dive into the world of our Heroines by watching or listening them discuss their craft. Over the past year we have had the pleasure of sitting down with leading women in photography; whether that’s on The VOICES Podcast or in front of the public in our many panels and discussions. Look and listen out for more coming in the future …

Celebrating Women in Photography Today – Together

Bootcamp22: Photography & Protest

Returning in January 2022, register to our two week programme of workshops, community discussions and creative tasks. Focussing on how Heroines use visual art as a medium for political expression.

Glostorama!

Hundred Heroines HQ has moved to Gloucester and to celebrate, we want to enlist your help to create a photographic archive for the future, an archive that showcases Gloucester in the 2020s.

Women in STEAM: Photographer Talk

As part of EXPOSURE 2022, we welcome Mónica Alcázar Duarte & Wendy McMurdo to discuss how they document and utilise science and technology within their practices. Register for free today!

Better than Netflix: An overdue voyage of discovery for any art photography aficionado. (ArtMag, Deutsche Bank)

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Heroines Past

Explore our online archives and research resources to find out more about the pioneers of photography. As part of our mission, we celebrate the women photographers who came before.

Image: Courtesy of Jean Bubley and the Esther Bubley Archive.

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Forthcoming Events

Stay tuned for our 2022 events; from public photography projects to Heroine online talks. We’ll be publishing our 2022 programme in January.

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Latest News

13th January 2022

Poulomi Basu welcomes her first major solo exhibition

Showing work from three series, Poulomi Basu brings her new exhibition to Side Gallery, Newcastle, on view until February 6, 2022

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12th January 2022

Women In STEAM: Photography talk with Mónica Alcázar Duarte & Wendy McMurdo

Online event with contemporary photographers Mónica Alcázar Duarte & Wendy McMurdo as part of EXPOSURE Photography Festival

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10th January 2022

Sarah Moon’s dreamlike images come to New York

Sarah Moon curates her solo exhibition, At The Still Point, at Fotografiska New York, on view until Feb 3, 2022.

Gabby Kynoch

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Zineb Sedira, “Standing Here Wondering Which Way to Go”, 2019 (Detail of the installation “Way of Life”). © Zineb Sedira/ ADAGP, Paris, 2019. Courtesy of galleries kamel mennour, Paris/London and The Third Line, Dubaï

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6th January 2022

Last Chance to See – Voice-Over: Zineb Sedira

Contemporary Heroine Zineb Sedira’s solo show, at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, comes to a close this January 30, 2022

Gabby Kynoch

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4th January 2022

Marta Hoepffner

Marta Hoepffner (1912–2000) was a German experimental artist and abstract photographer. She was a pioneer of photomontage and the photogram in the 1930s and the kinetic art movement in the…

Gabby Kynoch

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24th December 2021

Last Chance to See – Carrie Mae Weem’s ‘The Shape of Things’

Contemporary Heroines Carrie Mae Weems brings her largest exhibition in 10 years to New York, on view until Dec 31, 2021

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