Tee Corinne, born in St. Petersburg, Florida, 1943, was a prolific lesbian writer, artist, sex educator, historian, and feminist, famous for her content which explores the intersections of feminism and sexuality.
Ruth Harriet Louise was the first woman to run the MGM portrait studio.
Frances Benjamin Johnston is recognised as one of the first women of American photography and one of its first LGBT+ practitioners.
An art patron and collector of early photography, Pauline Jermyn Trevelyan (1816-1866) started her own photographic work creating sketches using a camera lucida while travelling Europe with her husband, an aristocrat geologist and botanist.
Born in Perth on 20th January 1805, Jessie Mann (1805-1867) is regarded as the first Scottish woman photographer.
Lady Clementina Hawarden (1822-1865) was a prolific amateur photographer, best known for taking portraits of her daughters
Carolee Schneemann (1939 – 2019) was an experimental visual artist known for her works on the body, sexuality, and gender.
Nydia Blas is a visual artist, originally from New York, who now resides in Georgia. Using a variety of media including photography, collage, video, and books to explore her life as a girl, woman, and mother, her photographs create a physical and allegorical space presented through a Black feminine lens.
Lebohang Kganye was born in 1990 in Johannesburg, where she currently lives and works. She obtained a Diploma in Fine Arts from the University of Johannesburg in 2014 and is currently studying for a Masters in Fine Arts at the Witwatersrand University.
Ghana’s first professional women photographer, Felicia Abban (b. 1935) spent her sixty year career documenting Ghanain society and history. Noted for her studio portraits, she opened ‘Mrs. Felicia Abban’s Day and Night Quality Art Studio’ in Jamestown, Accra, hiring other women as apprentices and passing on her skills.
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