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
Gisele Freund born 19 December 1908, Gertie Deutsch born 19 December 1908, Trude Fleishmann born 22 December 1895, Jessie Tarbox Beals born 23 December 1870, Christina Broom born 28 December 1862
PlanetHeroines15th December 2023
12th December of the #HHAdvent calendar, Paula Vellet shares a book recommendation.
PlanetHeroines12th 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
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
Nancy Wynne Newhall was an American photography writer and curator, and the co-founder of Aperture Magazine.
Katherine Riley17th August 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
