Gloucester: On the first anniversary of the late Queen’s death, we are launching the Dorothy Wilding Gloucester Archive with an installation that commemorates Dorothy’s relationship with Queen Elizabeth II, curated by collector Sarah Grant.
Signe Brander (1869 – 1942) was a Swedish-Finnish photographer celebrated for documenting urban and cultural change in the city of Helsinki.
Florence Vandamm (1883 – 1996) was a portrait photographer who photographed over 2,000 Broadway productions in New York.
Nancy Wynne Newhall was an American photography writer and curator, and the co-founder of Aperture Magazine.
Our vision is for women in photography to be recognised and celebrated for their work and to that end we want to acquire an English Heritage Blue Plaque for Gloucester born photographer Dorothy Wilding.
Tee Corinne, born in St. Petersburg, Florida, 1943, was a prolific lesbian writer, artist, sex educator, historian, and feminist, famous for her content which explores the intersections of feminism and sexuality.
Ruth Harriet Louise was the first woman to run the MGM portrait studio.
Frances Benjamin Johnston is recognised as one of the first women of American photography and one of its first LGBT+ practitioners.
An art patron and collector of early photography, Pauline Jermyn Trevelyan (1816-1866) started her own photographic work creating sketches using a camera lucida while travelling Europe with her husband, an aristocrat geologist and botanist.
Born in Perth on 20th January 1805, Jessie Mann (1805-1867) is regarded as the first Scottish woman photographer.
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