To honour World Refugee Day 2021, which is the culmination of Refugee Week UK, we at Hundred Heroines are featuring 7 women photographers who embody this year’s theme of the power of inclusion.
A major retrospective of Heroine Jo Spence, From Fairytales to Phototherapy (18 June - 20 June 2021), is being exhibited at Arnolfini as part of Bristol Photo Festival.
One of the premier fashion and portrait photographers of the 20s and 30s in Germany, ‘Yva’ produced elegant fashion portraits, photomontages and advertising work in Berlin from 1925 until the Nazi’s closed her studio. She was killed in the Majdanek concentration camp in 1944.
Two Heroines, Poulomi Basu and Zineb Sedira, are shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2021 and will feature in an exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery 25th June - 26th September.
Heroine Natasha Caruana is known in the industry for her dedication to teaching and mentorship. She brings much-needed positivity and transparency to what it means to be a working artist today.