German photographer Anne Fischer (1914 – 1986) left Germany in 1937 to become a fine portrait photographer and to specialise in dance photography.
Grace Robertson OBE (1930 – 2021) was a leading British photojournalist who highlighted the stories of ordinary women.
A pioneer of photography and installation art, Helen Chadwick (1953-1996) was one of the first women to be nominated for the Turner Prize.
A pioneer of black and white photography, Fay Godwin (1931 – 2005) was renowned for her landscapes of the British coastline and countryside.
Britain’s pioneering female press photographer, Christina Broom, took up photography only in her 40s after her husband became unable to work.
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
Dorothea Lange was able to run a successful portrait studio in San Francisco during the 1920s during the Great Depression.
Laura Gilpin spent her photography career documenting the Indigenous tribes of the United States, particularly the Navajo and Pueblo tribes.
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