Heroines of the past who were active at some point between the mid-20th century and the early 21st century.
Olive Cotton was one of the most important 20th century Australian modernist photographers. Based in Cowra, her pioneering work spanned the 1930s and 40s...
Agnès Varda is considered a forerunner of the French New Wave, exploring new approaches to editing, visual style and social and political engagement...
Austrian visual artist and photographer who focused primarily on conceptual art as a form of narrative expression....
Sibylle Bergemann has been hailed as ‘one of the most important German photographers of the last decades’...
Over her long career, Jo Spence moved from capturing moments of domestic happiness in commercial photography to works that challenged capitalism and sexism,before focusing on questions of illness and healing as she battled with breast...
Mariana Yampolsky is one of Mexico’s most influential and talented photographers. She created art is versatile and multifaceted...
Betti Mautner was born in Vienna in 1892 when the role and significance of photography was being re-evaluated, being seen as an art form...
Gisele Wulfsohn's work was celebrated for highlighting poverty, HIV/AIDS and the apartheid in South Africa....
Exploring Tish Murtha’s lesser known collection London by Night (1983)....
Austrian photographer Inge Morath left Nazi Germany to America to become an editor and then as assistant to Henry Cartier-Bresson....
