
Mary Ellen Mark was a highly esteemed and accredited photographer with a specific interest in capturing 1960s counterculture
Mary Ellen Mark was a highly esteemed and accredited photographer with a specific interest in capturing 1960s counterculture
As one of the first successful Mexican women photographers, Lola Álvarez Bravo was celebrated in her nation for her works
For legendary photographer Gertrude Käsebier (1852–1934), photography was a means to escape an unhappy marriage and become financially independent.
Edinburgh-based Franki Raffles (1955 – 1994) was a social documentarian and feminist photographer who died tragically young.
Lillian Bassman’s (1917-2012) fashion photography appeared on the pages of Harper’s Bazaar from the 1940’s to the 1960’s. Her self-taught, experimental and dreamlike approach brought an elegance to fashion photography and elevated it to an art form.
Pioneers of industrial architecture photography, Hilla Becher (1931 – 2015) with partner Bernd, were known for their black and white typology photography.
One half of ringl+pit, Jewish photographer Ellen Auerbach (1906-2004) created surreal images and used photography as a means of independence.
Known as Ya-Haddy Sisi Saye, Khadija was a Gambian-British photographer, celebrated for her extraordinary photographs during her short life, which ended, at the age of 24, in the Grenfell fire of 2017.
Coming from a long line of photographers, German-born Lotte Jacobi (1896-1990) was known for her intimate, dramatic and often experimental portraits in the ‘New Vision’ style of the late 1920s and 30s. After fleeing Hitler’s Germany, she re-established herself as a portraitist in New York and moved into abstraction and landscape photography in the 1950s.