SKIN DEEP by Paola Paredes

Skin Deep is an interactive photographic experience. It presents fifteen stories, representing the diverse sexualities and gender identities of the queer community in Ecuador.

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.

STEM

In the past few years, there has been a push to include Art within STEM, understanding the intertwining relationships of science and art and to rally for a greater representation of women within all these fields.

Recent Posts

Penny Tweedie

British photojournalist Penelope Anne (Penny) Tweedie (1940-2011) covered the major political and humanitarian issues of the 60s and 70s with fearless and compassionate images....

Woman with brown curly hair, smiling wearing a yellow jumper.

Claire Aho

Known as ‘the Grand Old Lady of Finnish Photography’, Claire Aho was a pioneer of editorial photography recognised for her innovative use of colour techniques...

Yvonne Gregory

Yvonne Gregory (1889–1970) was a society photographer who captured the presence and exuberance of society figures and theatrical stars...

Exhibitions to see in 2025

A round-up of exhibitions around the globe to see in 2025.  Our micro-volunteers have been busy surfing the net for exhibitions from women photographers (and sometimes non-photographic exhibitions that look interesting!)....

Black and white photograph. Three women wearing ruffled dresses and hats, posed with one leg in front of the other.

Florence Vandamm

Florence Vandamm (1883 - 1996) was a portrait photographer who photographed over 2,000 Broadway productions in New York....

Arlene Gottfried

Arlene Gottfried, 1950 – 2017. An extraordinary photographer of life on the streets of New York, Arlene Gottfried captured the eccentric and marginal with compassion, humour, and affection....

A black and white portrait photograph of a woman, Margaret, wearing a 1940s nurse uniform. She has short, slightly curled hair and wears a buttoned up shirt with a stiff collar and two small stripes on the shoulder.

Pearl Freeman

Pearl Freeman was a portrait photographer, active from 1931 - 1954. Working in London, she was a contemporary of Dorothy Wilding and Yevonde....

Emmy Eugenie Andriesse

Emmy Andriesse (1914-1953) was a Dutch humanist photographer best known for her street photography for the Underground Camera group during the Second World War....

Black and white photo of Helsinki in 1912. Wooden buildings stand in front of a larger expanse of buildings, constructed with bricks.

Signe Brander

Signe Brander (1869 - 1942) was a Swedish-Finnish photographer celebrated for documenting urban and cultural change in the city of Helsinki....

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