Helen Trompeteler is a Curator of Photography with over fifteen years experience working with museum collections, galleries and arts organisations.
PlanetHeroines11th August 2018
Lisa Katsiaris’s images are characterised by their serene, contemplative mood, but their origin is anything but calm. She explains how photography helped her through personal tragedy and to redefine her life.
PlanetHeroines10th August 2018
For legendary photographer Gertrude Käsebier (née Stanton), photography was a means to escape an unhappy marriage and become financially independent.
PlanetHeroines7th August 2018
My practice I use the aesthetic tropes of advertising to critique the stereotypical gender representations that colonise commercial visual culture.
PlanetHeroines7th August 2018
French photojournalist Catherine Leroy (1944-2006) continued the work of fellow female war photographer Dickey Chapelle in documenting the Vietnam War and went on to cover the Fall of Saigon, the Troubles and the Middle East wars. She was the first woman to win the Robert Capra and George Polk awards for courage…
PlanetHeroines7th August 2018
Women such as Julia Margaret Cameron were among the pioneers of photography and the earliest members of the Royal Photographic Society.
PlanetHeroines2nd August 2018
