Here are five pioneering women in photography to celebrate in the month of March - from Jane Bown CBE to Běla Kolářová.
Katherine Riley4th March 2024
Lallie Charles (1869-1919) was a well-known society photographer based in Regent’s Park, London, who specialised in commercial portraiture.
Katherine Riley17th January 2024
Běla Kolářová (1923 – 2010) was a unique and pioneering self-taught artist, a proponent of Czech photography of the Cold War avant garde.
Katherine Riley11th January 2024
Florence Vandamm (1883 - 1996) was a portrait photographer who photographed over 2,000 Broadway productions in New York.
Katherine Riley12th December 2023
Pearl Freeman was a portrait photographer, active from 1931 - 1954. Working in London, she was a contemporary of Dorothy Wilding and Yevonde.
Katherine Riley31st October 2023
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
Sarah Louse Judd (1802 – 1886) was the first commercial photographer in Minnesota and first schoolteacher in Washington County. She experimented with daguerreotypes during the spring of 1848 for two years in Stillwater.
PlanetHeroines9th October 2023
Geneviève Élisabeth Disdéri, born in 1817, was one of the earliest women photographers and the first French woman photographer.
PlanetHeroines9th October 2023
