Help support our work by texting 100H to 70085 to donate £5.
Texts cost £5 plus one standard rate message. Thank you!
Alice Austin (1866-1952) was one of the first women to work outside the photographic studio, documenting New York City as well as intimate relationships between Victorian women
Whether or not you were able to attend in person, our series of Photo London 2022 highlights provide a whistle-stop tour of the Historical and Contemporary Heroines’ contributions, covering remarkable works from throughout the medium’s history.
LIFE Magazine offered women photographers the opportunity to take control of their careers with sustainable wages and assignments documenting America after World War 2.
Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971), American photojournalist, war correspondent and Fortune and LIFE magazine photographer who covered events from the Great Depression, through WW2 to the Cold War
Martha Holmes (1923-2006) was one of LIFE Magazine’s pioneering women photographers of the 1940s and 1950s.
Marie Hansen (1918 – 1969) was one of LIFE Magazine’s pioneering female photographers of the 1940s and 1950s.
Explore 10 female photographers who studied at the Bauhaus’s campuses in Dessau and Weimar, before the schools were closed at the onset of the Second World War
Marianne Brandt (1893-1983) was a celebrated Bauhaus-trained industrial designer, photographer and pioneer of Modernist photomontage. She experimented with the array of imagery available in the new illustrated press to challenge gender roles and preconceptions.
Gertrud Arndt (1903 – 2000) was a German photographer and weaver trained at the Bauhaus between 1923 and 1927. She is remembered for her pioneering series of self-portraits ‘The Mask Portraits’ from around 1930.
