Heroinic Stories

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Marissa Roth is an internationally published freelance photojournalist and documentary photographer. Her assignments for prestigious publications including The New York Times, have taken her around the world. Roth was part of The Los Angeles Times staff that won a Pulitzer Prize for Best Spot News, for…

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.

My practice I use the aesthetic tropes of advertising to critique the stereotypical gender representations that colonise commercial visual culture.

From Being Inbetween, which is a continually evolving series of photographic portraits of girls aged between ten and twelve, exploring the complex transition between childhood and young adulthood

British photographer Maryam Wahid explores her identity as a South Asian Muslim.

The Second World War marked the bloodiest period in the bloodiest century of recorded history, with ordinary men and women finding themselves caught up in conflicts often thousands of miles away from their homes.

Taten Statt Worte - Deeds not Words; how Elaine Pringle-Schwitter used her admiration for the suffragettes to raise money for women's charities.

TEDx talk where nominated heroine, Denise Wozmiak, shares her moving story about how photography helped her through post-traumatic stress after she lost her six month old baby to AIDS.

I've come to photography just as I'd come to motherhood: a bit later in life than I otherwise might have planned. When I picked up a camera for the first time in decades, I felt most comfortable exploring landscape. I was particularly drawn to farmlands I'd witnessed undergoing repeated cycles of implantation,…

I have been an enthusiastic photographer since the age of 6, when my father handed me his camera to take his photograph. When the result came back, perfectly framed, my reward was a camera of my own the following Christmas.