Abigail Heyman (1942-2013) was a pioneering American photographer and feminist, renowned for her powerfully intimate portrayal of women’s lived experience.
Del Barrett1st August 2024
Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870 –1942), Canadian-born American photographer and photojournalist, was the first published female photojournalist in the United States and the first female night photographer. She documented Greenwich Village and the major figures and events of New York from the Victorian era up to the Depression.
PlanetHeroines25th July 2022
After studying under Trude Fleischmann in Vienna, Marion Post Wolcott (1910-1990) traveled back to America to document the rural south
Gabby Kynoch24th August 2021
Vivian Maier is one of the most prolific and distinctive American photographers of the mid to late twentieth century
Gabby Kynoch2nd March 2021
Austrian photographer Inge Morath left Nazi Germany to America to become an editor and then as assistant to Henry Cartier-Bresson.
Gabby Kynoch22nd December 2020
Imogen Cunningham, The Unmade Bed, 1957, © Imogen Cunningham Trust www.imogencunningham.com Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) American photographer One of the first professional female photographers in the US and the most experimental and independent, Imogen Cunningham was born in Portland, Oregon. She was inspired to become a photographer by the great portraitist Gertrude Kasebier…
Becky Handley5th December 2020
Florestine Perrault Collins navigated the social expectations of her race and gender to give visibility to Black women in 1920's New Orleans.
Melissa Spreadborough21st October 2020
For legendary photographer Gertrude Käsebier (1852–1934), photography was a means to escape an unhappy marriage and become financially independent.
Gabby Kynoch12th November 2019
