By Ruby Mitchell: Alice Schalek (1874-1956) was born in Vienna and before becoming a war photographer, she published novels under the pseudonym Paul Michaely.
Del Barrett21st August 2024
By Paula Vellet: Grete Kolliner was an Austrian photographer whose innovative work captured movement and dramatic poses.
PlanetHeroines14th August 2024
Shirley Baker (9th July 1932 - 21st September 2014) - pioneering street photographer of post-war Britain.
Del Barrett9th July 2024
Here are five Black women photographers, among many, who have made a lasting impact on the trajectory of photography and the visual arts.
Katherine Riley18th October 2023
Emmy Andriesse (1914-1953) was a Dutch humanist photographer best known for her street photography for the Underground Camera group during the Second World War.
PlanetHeroines28th September 2023
Margarethe (Margaret) Gross was born in 1902 into a Jewish family in Dzieditz, near Cracow, in what was then Austria (now Poland). Her liberal upbringing led her to studying photography at the Institute of Graphic Arts and Research in Vienna, followed by apprenticeships in some of the leading Viennese studios of the…
PlanetHeroines15th December 2022
Liselotte studied painting and graphic design at her local art academy – Badische Landeskunstschule, Karlsruhe (BLK) – and took up the then–new course in advertising photography at the School of Applied Arts in Stuttgart.
PlanetHeroines13th December 2022
Hundred Heroines’s Fanny Beckman revisits photographer Marilyn Stafford to discuss her decades spanning career
Gabby Kynoch17th November 2021
