HISTORICAL HEROINES

Alice Guy Blaché

One of the first female film directors and a pioneer of the art...

Amelia Elizabeth Guppy

Amelia Elizabeth Guppy was a pioneering photographer often remembered for her adventurous spirit and passion for studying orchids....

Ann Cooke

Ann Cooke is credited as being the first female photographer in Britain to open a professional photographic portrait studio....

Anna Atkins

Anna Atkins was the first person to create a book made entirely from photographic images and is widely acclaimed for her use of British algae cyanotypes....

Anne Brigman

'My pictures tell of my freedom of soul, my emancipation from fear'...

Berenice Abbott

Best known for photographing the changing face of New York in the 1930s....

Cecilia Glaisher

Christina Broom

Britain’s pioneering female press photographer, Christina Broom, took up photography only in her 40s after her husband became unable to work....

Claude Cahun

Claude Cahun was best known for her Surrealist self-portraits...

Constance Fox Talbot

Considered by many to be the first woman to take a photograph....