In her book "In Search of Frankenstein - Mary Shelley's Nightmare" Chloe Dewe Mathews draws parallels between the themes of Shelley's novel and the environmental crisis.
PlanetHeroines19th 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
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
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.
PlanetHeroines22nd May 2023
Frances Benjamin Johnston is recognised as one of the first women of American photography and one of its first LGBT+ practitioners.
Katherine Riley23rd February 2023
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.
PlanetHeroines19th January 2023
