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A Day Out in Nailsworth

Looking for the perfect autumn day out? Nailsworth is full of charm, creativity and interesting shops - ideal for a day trip or cosy weekend break....

Tour and Talk with Gulshan Khan

Artist Tour : 18 October 2025 from 11:00. Join us for a tour and talk with award-winning photojournalist Gulshan Khan....

Woman in a green coat and a white hat behind a glass window

Capturing the Zeitgeist

If there was ever cause for celebration, it’s a centenary. One hundred years ago, the ‘Grand Old Lady of Finnish Photography,’ Claire Aho, was born in Helsinki....

The Joyful Woman Collective

Launch event and taster session: 6 November 2025 18:30 - 20:30...

A Tribute to Textiles

Co-curated installation: 20 September 2025 from 11:00 with Lisl Ponger as part of Heritage Open Days...

Garden Party Invitation – Poisoned Futures

Join us in Mortimer Gardens for an early evening gathering beneath the trees to celebrate the summer season and the artists, thinkers and changemakers shaping a better future....

Visible Mending Workshop

Workshop : 31st July 2025, 18:30 - 20:30, Join us for a creative, hands-on session exploring the art of visible mending...

Poisoned Futures?

13.06.25 - 25.10.25 EXHIBITION "Poisoned Futures" - entanglements of climate change featuring Gulshan Khan, Laura El-Tantawy and Lisl Ponger...

Green: Photo Competition

Photography competition to see your work featured in the Art Garden and be in with a chance to win a prize!...

Self portrait (in robe with masks attached) © Claude Cahun. Courtesy of the Jersey Heritage Collections

Hidden Histories: Claude Cahun

For Claude, exploring the limits of male & female identities was not merely a critique of societal gender norms, but rather a highly introspective endeavour...

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Hazel (Frieda) Larsen Archer

Hazel Larsen Archer 's photos provide an invaluable record of their era, and of a group of avant-garde artists that changed American art.

PlanetHeroines25th July 2022

Birgit Jürgenssen. Untitled (Self with Fur)

Arles 2022 Exhibition Featured Front Page

Featuring, among others, Contemporary Heroines Renate Bertlmann, VALIE EXPORT, ORLAN, Cindy Sherman, Annegret Soltau, Nil Yalter, and Marianne Wex; and Historical Heroines Ana Mendieta, Martha Rosler, and Francesca Woodman.

PlanetHeroines25th July 2022

Arles 2022 Exhibition Featured Front Page

Noémie Goudal: Phoenix

In Phoenix, Noémie Goudal exemplifies her approach to photography as – rather than the ‘decisive moment’ described by Henri Carter-Bresson – “a place that you can visit and revisit a place you can live in.”

PlanetHeroines25th July 2022

Arles 2022 Exhibition Featured

Babette Mangolte – Women in Motion 2022

Hundred Heroines would like to congratulate Babette Mangolte, who has been awarded the winner of the Women in Motion 2022 Award.

PlanetHeroines6th July 2022

Featured Front Page Listicle Pride 2024

5 Historical Heroines to Remember this Pride Month

As Pride Month draws to a close, we're shining a spotlight on 5 historical LGBT+ pioneers who defied the conventions of the day

Del Barrett30th June 2022

Anti-Violence Projects Exhibition Featured Front Page

Donna Ferrato – Holy

In 2020, legendary photographer Donna Ferrato published Holy – a 50-year journey across the United States in pursuit of women’s political, emotional, and sexual liberation.

PlanetHeroines23rd June 2022

Exhibition Featured Front Page

Portrait(s) 2022

Celebrating a decade of bringing some of the world’s leading artists to France, Portrait(s) festival returns to the spa city of Vichy again this year, from 24th June.

PlanetHeroines23rd June 2022

Exhibition Featured Front Page

To What We Think We Remember: Catherine Opie

In To What We Think We Remember, her second solo show at Thomas Dane Gallery, London, Catherine designs a ‘metaphorical framework for reflection: on personal life, relationships, and work, but also on the fragility of humanity, the fractured ideals of a collective responsibility’.

PlanetHeroines23rd June 2022

Book Featured Front Page

Dayanita Singh – Let’s See

In Dayanita Singh’s latest photo-novel, Let’s See (pub. Steidl, 26th May 2022), she revisits the earliest years of her archive – looking back at the images she created when she did not yet consider herself a photographer.

PlanetHeroines21st June 2022

Exhibition Featured Front Page

Sue Williamson – All Our Mothers

People - their history, their identity, and the stories they tell - are at the heart of Sue Williamson’s practice. Part of the generation of South African artists and photographers whose work challenged the apartheid government in the 70s and 80s, her work honours the courageous women who underpinned the struggle for…

PlanetHeroines14th June 2022