Hundred Heroines This is the only UK charity dedicated to “advancing public awareness of women in photography”. As part of its mission, the organisation tracks down, preserves and celebrates archives that might have been forgotten or mislaid, which involves working with numerous estates, from Homai Vyarawalla, India’s first female photojournalist, to Hong Kong photographer Nancy Sheung. “It’s vital that the archives of contemporary women in photography do not end up neglected,” says founder Del Barrett, “and fundamental that the legacy heroines of tomorrow are not written out of history, as so many of their predecessors have been.” hundredheroines.org
