Frances Benjamin Johnston is recognised as one of the first women of American photography and one of its first LGBT+ practitioners.
Katherine Riley23rd February 2023
Born in Perth on 20th January 1805, Jessie Mann (1805-1867) is regarded as the first Scottish woman photographer.
PlanetHeroines19th January 2023
Lady Clementina Hawarden (1822-1865) was a prolific amateur photographer, best known for taking portraits of her daughters
Del Barrett19th January 2023
Carolee Schneemann (1939 – 2019) was an experimental visual artist known for her works on the body, sexuality, and gender.
Katherine Riley22nd December 2022
Margarethe (Margaret) Gross was born in 1902 into a Jewish family in Dzieditz, near Cracow, in what was then Austria (now Poland). Her liberal upbringing led her to studying photography at the Institute of Graphic Arts and Research in Vienna, followed by apprenticeships in some of the leading Viennese studios of the…
PlanetHeroines15th December 2022
Liselotte studied painting and graphic design at her local art academy – Badische Landeskunstschule, Karlsruhe (BLK) – and took up the then–new course in advertising photography at the School of Applied Arts in Stuttgart.
PlanetHeroines13th December 2022
American photojournalist Dickey Chapelle (1918 – 1965) was one of the first women correspondents accredited by the military in WWII.
PlanetHeroines15th August 2022
Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870 –1942), Canadian-born American photographer and photojournalist, was the first published female photojournalist in the United States and the first female night photographer. She documented Greenwich Village and the major figures and events of New York from the Victorian era up to the Depression.
PlanetHeroines25th July 2022
