Jane 'Jennie' Louise Van Der Zee toussaint Welcome was one of the only Black Women filmmakers during the silent movie era.
Becky Handley7th January 2025
Trude Fleischmann (1895 – 1990) was an Austrian-born American photographer, one of a group of young, confident, Jewish, female photographers opening their own studios in Vienna after World War I.
Gabby Kynoch16th December 2024
Adele Perlmutter-Heilperin was a photographer working in Vienna in the late 1800s. She produced an impressive portfolio of the Viennese elite.
PlanetHeroines12th December 2024
Born 21st November 1808. Amelia Elizabeth Guppy was a pioneering photographer often remembered for her adventurous spirit and passion for studying orchids.
Becky Handley9th November 2024
Spirit photography, a cultural phenomenon that swept through 19th-century England. At the heart of this strange and haunting practice was Georgiana Houghton, a figure who, with her delicate balance of spiritual fervour and commercial savvy, wove together photography and mediumship, exploring the long-suffering human desire to commune with the dead.
PlanetHeroines30th October 2024
Alice Hughes (1857-1939) was a renowned studio portraitist based in London during the later years of the nineteenth century. She worked primarily in her Gower Street studio, which employed over fifty assistants and process workers at one time - all women.
PlanetHeroines29th October 2024
By Paula: A pioneer of colour polaroids in the 1960s, American photographer Marie Cosindas (1923-2017) helped launch colour photography as an artform.
Del Barrett2nd September 2024
By Harper: Elfriede Mejchar (1924-2020) was a pioneering Austrian photographer who documented Vienna's social landscape through a unique lens.
PlanetHeroines1st September 2024
