Geneviève Élisabeth Disdéri, born in 1817, was one of the earliest women photographers and the first French woman photographer.
PlanetHeroines9th October 2023
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.
PlanetHeroines22nd May 2023
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
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.
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
American photojournalist Dickey Chapelle (1918 – 1965) was one of the first women correspondents accredited by the military in WWII.
PlanetHeroines15th August 2022
Born into a wealthy New York banking family, legendary photographer Antoinette ‘Toni’ Frissell Bacon (1907 – 1988) was introduced to photography in her twenties by her filmmaker brother Varick.
Gabby Kynoch17th November 2021
