In 1949 Jane Bown (1925–2014) began working for The Observer newspaper. It was a partnership that would last over 60 years and lead to her photographing the leading political, cultural and royal figures of the day.
Gabby Kynoch17th September 2021
Mary Olive Edis (1876-1955) opened her first studio with sister in Norfolk, UK. She was one of the first women to accepted as a member of the RPS.
Gabby Kynoch24th August 2021
In the first decades of the twentieth century, high-end portrait photography was dominated by women such as Anni Schulz (1897-1943) and Marianne Bergler (Blumberger) (1897-1980), Trude Neumann Geiringer (1890 – 1981) and Dora Horovitz (1894 – 1959).
Gabby Kynoch16th August 2021
The uplifting exhibition, Generations: Portraits of Holocaust Survivors, features women photographers at IWM London, on view until January 2022.
Gabby Kynoch12th August 2021
Elly Niebuhr (1914 – 2013) became one of the most sought after fashion and advertising photographers in Vienna during the 1950s.
Gabby Kynoch2nd August 2021
Often referred to as Canada’s first professional woman photographer, Minna was born in Germany in 1861.
Gabby Kynoch30th June 2021
Florence Henri among other Historical Heroines on display in 'Women in Abstraction', at the Centre Pompidou, Paris. On view until August 23, 2021
Gabby Kynoch23rd June 2021
To honour World Refugee Day 2021, which is the culmination of Refugee Week UK, we at Hundred Heroines are featuring 7 women photographers who embody this year’s theme of the power of inclusion.
Gabby Kynoch17th June 2021
One of the premier fashion and portrait photographers of the 20s and 30s in Germany, ‘Yva’ produced elegant fashion portraits, photomontages and advertising work in Berlin from 1925 until the Nazi’s closed her studio. She was killed in the Majdanek concentration camp in 1944.
Gabby Kynoch9th June 2021
