

Blog posts and articles by Paula Vellet.
A snapshot of some of the early women photographers in South Africa
Norah documented the early years of British suffrage and the ground-breaking work of socialist Sylvia Pankhurst in London’s East End.
Constance Stuart Larrabee was remarkable on many levels, from owning her own photography studio to photographing from war zones
For legendary photographer Gertrude Käsebier (1852–1934), photography was a means to escape an unhappy marriage and become financially independent.
Edinburgh-based Franki Raffles (1955 – 1994) was a social documentarian and feminist photographer who died tragically young.
Lillian Bassman’s (1917-2012) fashion photography appeared on the pages of Harper’s Bazaar from the 1940’s to the 1960’s. Her self-taught, experimental and dreamlike approach brought an elegance to fashion photography and elevated it to an art form.