FeaturedFront Page FORMAT21: Yan Wang Preston Exhibiting at FORMAT21, Yan Wang Preston presents her year long project documenting a rhododendron in relation to control, covid and changeGabby Kynoch15th March 2021
FeaturedHHBLogHistorical HeroinesHPBlog Lisa Larsen Legendary photographer Lisa Larsen was one of LIFE’s pioneering female photojournalists. Born in Germany, she moved to the US as a teenagerGabby Kynoch3rd March 2021
HHBLogHistorical HeroinesHPBlogLHBlog Ruth Orkin Photojournalist Ruth Orkin was voted one of the Top Ten Women Photographers by the Professional Photographers of America in 1959Gabby Kynoch2nd February 2021
HHBLogHistorical HeroinesHPBlog Christina Broom Britain’s pioneering female press photographer, Christina Broom, took up photography only in her 40s after her husband became unable to work.Becky Handley18th January 2021
Front PageHHBLogHistorical HeroinesHPBlog Madame d’Ora The most famous of the Viennese pre-war photographers was Dora Kallmus, otherwise known as Madame d’OraGabby Kynoch18th January 2021
HHBLogHistorical HeroinesHPBlog Laure Albin-Guillot Born Laure Meffredy in Paris, photographer Laure Albin-Guillot first opened a portrait studio at her home in Rue du Ranelagh in the 1920s.Gabby Kynoch12th January 2021
HHBLogHistorical HeroinesHPBlog Isabel Agnes Cowper (Mrs Cowper) Possibly the South Kensington Museum’s (V & A) first female Official Museum Photographer.Becky Handley12th January 2021
Historical HeroinesHPBlogLHBlog Inge Morath Austrian photographer Inge Morath left Nazi Germany to America to become an editor and then as assistant to Henry Cartier-Bresson.Gabby Kynoch22nd December 2020
Front PageHHBLogHistorical HeroinesHPBlogLHBlog Ruth Bernhard German photographer Ruth Bernhard studied at the Berlin Academy of Art. In 1927, she relocated to New York to begin a career in commercial photography.Becky Handley20th December 2020
Historical Heroines Imogen Cunningham Imogen Cunningham, The Unmade Bed, 1957, © Imogen Cunningham Trust www.imogencunningham.com Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) American photographer One of the first professional female photographers in the US and the most experimental and independent, Imogen Cunningham was born in Portland, Oregon. She was inspired to become a photographer by the great portraitist Gertrude Kasebier…Becky Handley5th December 2020