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List of British women photographers

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This is a list of women photographers who were born in the United Kingdom or whose works are closely associated with that country.

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A

  • Sarah Angelina Acland (1849–1930), an amateur photographer who pioneered colour in Gibraltar in 1903 and 1904 and later in Madeira
  • Heather Angel (born 1941), nature photographer
  • Olivia Arthur (born 1980), documentary photographer
  • Anna Atkins (1799–1871), a botanist, the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images

    • B

  • Lisa Barnard (born 1967), documentary photographer, political artist, and senior lecturer on documentary photography at University of South Wales
  • Kate Barry (1967–2013), fashion photographer
  • Emma Barton (1872–1938), portrait photographer, autochromes, awarded the Royal Photographic Society Medal in 1903
  • Hélène Binet (born 1959), see Switzerland
  • Dorothy Bohm (born 1924), originally from Königsberg, initially portraits, later street photography, from 1985 in colour
  • Gemma Booth (active since 2009), fashion photographer
  • Jane Bown (born 1925), notable portrait photographer, also worked for The Observer
  • Sonia Boyce (born 1962), contemporary artist, photographer, educator
  • Sarah Anne Bright (1793–1866), artist, photographer, produced the earliest surviving photographic images taken by a woman
  • Zana Briski (born 1966), documentary, especially insects
  • Christina Broom (1862–1939), said to be Britain's first female press photographer
  • Zoë Buckman (born 1985), multi-media artist, photographer
  • Cindy Buxton (born 1950), wildlife photographer, filmmaker

    • C

  • Evelyn Cameron (1868–1928), see United States
  • Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879), notable early work, closely cropped portraits of celebrities, 800 of her works owned by the Royal Photographic Society
  • Araminta de Clermont (born 1971), artistic photographer
  • Hannah Collins (born 1956), contemporary artist, filmmaker, photographer
  • Elaine Constantine (born 1965), photographer, filmmaker

    • D

  • Corinne Day (1962–2010), fashion and documentary photographer
  • Venetia Dearden (born 1975), photographer, filmmaker
  • Susan Derges (born 1955), photographic artist, camera-less photography
  • Eileen Olive Deste (1908–1986), see New Zealand
  • Mary Dillwyn (1816–1906), the earliest female photographer in Wales
  • Zoë Dominic (1920–2011), dance and theatre photographer

    • E

  • Olive Edis (1876–1955), portraits and early autochromes, diascope viewer
  • Amanda Eliasch (active since 1999), photographer, artist, filmmaker

    • F

  • Florence Farmborough (1887–1978), writer, photographer, nurse
  • Candice Farmer (born c. 1970), underwater fashion photographer
  • Mary Georgina Filmer (1838–1903), early proponent of photomontage
  • Mary Fitzpatrick (born 1968), known for her work on spaces abandoned after conflict
  • Anna Fox (born 1961), office life in London, "Made in" series on Milton Keynes, Kansas, Gothenburg and Florence
  • Constance Fox Talbot (1811–1880), wife of Henry Fox Talbot, experimented with photography as early as 1839
  • Melanie Friend (born 1957), photographer, educator
  • Jill Furmanovsky (born 1953), see Zimbabwe

    • G

  • Yishay Garbasz (born 1970), contemporary artist, photographer
  • Paula Rae Gibson (born 1968), art photography
  • Fay Godwin (1931–2005), leading British landscape photographer of her day

    • H

  • Pamela Hanson (active since 2001), fashion photographer
  • Eleanor Hardwick (born 1993), contemporary artist, photographer, curator
  • Alice Seeley Harris (1870–1970), missionary, documentary photographer
  • Clementina Hawarden (1822–1865), notable portrait photographer in the 1860s, predating Julia Margaret Cameron
  • Kate Holt (born 1972), Zimbabwe-born British photojournalist
  • Alice Hughes (1857–1939), leading London portrait photographer specializing in images of fashionable women and children
  • Alyson Hunter (born 1948), see New Zealand

    • J

  • Care Johnson (born 1993), photographer, retoucher, public speaker
  • Andrea Jones (born 1960), garden photographer
  • Elsbeth Juda (born 1911), fashion photographer

    • K

  • Ann Kelley (born 1941), children's writer, poet, photographer

    • L

  • Etheldreda Laing (1872–1960), early autochrome photographs

    • M

  • Neeta Madahar (born 1966), artistic photographer specializing in nature, birds and flora
  • Marianne Majerus (born 1956), see Luxembourg
  • Jessie Mann (1805–1867), early Scottish photographer, assistant of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson
  • Georgina Masson (1912–1980), photographer, non-fiction writer
  • Mary McCartney (born 1969), ballet dancers, Spice Girls
  • Wendy McMurdo (born 1962), exploring the relationship between technology and identity
  • Lotte Meitner-Graf (1899–1973), portrait photographer in Vienna until 1937 when she came to London, Great Britain
  • Inge Morath (1923–2002), see Austria
  • Augusta Mostyn (1830–1912), philanthropist, artist, photographer
  • Tish Murtha (1956–2013), documentary photographer

    • N

  • Caroline Emily Nevill (1829–1827), early photographer and pioneering member of the Photographic Exchange Club

    • P

  • Laura Pannack (born 1985), social documentaries and portraits
  • Jill Posener (born 1953), lesbian photographer, playwright

    • Q

  • Terri Quaye (born 1940), musician, ethnographic photographer

    • R

  • Suze Randall (born 1946), erotic photographer
  • Sophy Rickett (born 1970), installation artist and photographer
  • Grace Robertson (born 1930), photojournalist contributing to Picture Post and Life in the 1950s
  • Mary Rosse (1813–1885), began experimenting with photography in 1842

    • S

  • Jane Martha St. John (1801–1882), known for her 1856 calotypes of Rome and other towns in Italy, now in the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Philippa Scott (1918–2010), wildlife photographer
  • Pepita Seth (active since 2000s), known for her photographs of elephants
  • Pennie Smith (born c. 1949), black-and-white portraits, rock groups
  • Jo Spence (1934–1992), known for her self-portraits depicting her fight against cancer
  • Doreen Spooner (active since 1950s), first female photographer on Fleet Street
  • Hannah Starkey (born 1971), staged settings of women in city environments
  • Clare Strand (born 1973), conceptual photographer
  • Maud Sulter (1960–2008), fine artist, photographer, writer and curator

    • T

  • Mitra Tabrizian (born 1959), see Iran
  • Sam Taylor-Wood (born 1967), art photography, portraits
  • Anya Teixeira (1913–1992), see Ukraine
  • Eveleen Tennant (1856–1937), photographer, family and visitors
  • Amelia Troubridge (born 1974), portrait, documentary photographer
  • Edith Tudor-Hart (1908–1973), see Austria
  • Emma Turner (1866–1940), pioneering bird photographer

    • V

  • Vivienne (1889–1982), photographer, singer, writer

    • W

  • Agnes Warburg (1872–1953), influential early colour photographer
  • Gillian Wearing (born 1963), conceptual artist also working with photography, video and installations
  • Jane Wigley (1820–1883), early photographer opening studios in Newcastle and London in the mid-1840s
  • Val Wilmer (born 1941), writer-photographer specialising in jazz, gospel, blues, and British African-Caribbean music and culture
  • Vanessa Winship (born 1960), portraiture and landscapes, particularly in Turkey, Georgia and the US
  • Olivia Wyndham (1897–1967), society photographer

    • Y

  • Catherine Yass (born 1963), bright colour, images often a combination of the positive and negative, subjects ranging from toilets to empty cinemas and Bollywood stars
  • Madame Yevonde (1893–1975), pioneered colour in portrait photography, including a series of guests at a party dressed as Roman and Greek gods and goddesses

    • References

    List of British women photographers Wikipedia
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