Mary Ellen Mark was a highly esteemed and accredited photographer with a specific interest in capturing 1960s counterculture
Gabby Kynoch11th February 2020
As one of the first successful Mexican women photographers, Lola Álvarez Bravo was celebrated in her nation for her works
Gabby Kynoch3rd February 2020
For legendary photographer Gertrude Käsebier (1852–1934), photography was a means to escape an unhappy marriage and become financially independent.
Gabby Kynoch12th November 2019
Edinburgh-based Franki Raffles (1955 - 1994) was a social documentarian and feminist photographer who died tragically young.
Gabby Kynoch17th September 2019
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.
Gabby Kynoch15th September 2019
Pioneers of industrial architecture photography, Hilla Becher (1931 - 2015) with partner Bernd, were known for their black and white typology photography.
Gabby Kynoch1st September 2019
One half of ringl+pit, Jewish photographer Ellen Auerbach (1906-2004) created surreal images and used photography as a means of independence.
Gabby Kynoch24th August 2019
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.
Gabby Kynoch12th July 2019
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…
Gabby Kynoch16th June 2019
