British photojournalist Penelope Anne (Penny) Tweedie (1940-2011) covered the major political and humanitarian issues of the 60s and 70s with fearless and compassionate images.
Del Barrett1st April 2025
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 Emery: Zaida Ben-Yúsuf, born 1869, was a New York portrait photographer, famed for her artistic and striking portraits and work in the arts, fashion, and theatre world contributing to photography’s place in modernism and establishment as an art form.
PlanetHeroines18th August 2024
By Paula Vellet: Grete Kolliner was an Austrian photographer whose innovative work captured movement and dramatic poses.
PlanetHeroines14th August 2024
The first UK retrospective of work by Evelyn Hofer has recently opened at The Photographers' Gallery, London.
Katherine Riley18th July 2023
Body Politics traces Carolee Schneemann's transgressive, interdisciplinary artistic expression over six decades.
Katherine Riley22nd December 2022
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
