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.
The RPS has scored a major success with its current exhibition in London which features the work of 89 female photographers. Brainchild of Vice President Del Barrett ARPS and project managed by Vanessa Ansa, the venue is just off the King’s Road. The huge selection of work from the UK and abroad…
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…
Ilse Bing (1899–1998) was a German-born inter-war photographer who worked in photojournalism and portraiture in Paris and New York. She worked in the modernist style and innovated using solarisation and night photography. Her work was featured in MoMA’s first survey exhibition of photography in 1937.
One of America’s foremost street photographers, Helen Levitt captured the energy of the streets of Spanish Harlem, Brooklyn and the Bronx through her candid, quirkily framed shots of children at play.
Book Launch & Signings, 22nd June at The Heroines Hub....Sharing stories of birth control, choice, freedom, regret pain, the images from published book, Mum’s not the word challenge the negative attitudes within society towards people without children.