List of women photographers

Women have made significant contributions to photography since its inception. Notable participants include:

Photobooks by Carol Beckwith, Nina Berman, Marrie Bot, KayLynn Deveney, Rena Effendi, Aya Fujioka (藤岡亜弥), Cristina García Rodero, Fay Godwin, Lourdes Grobet, Mikiko Hara, Reiko Imoto (井本礼子), Kyōko Ioka (井岡今日子), Olya Ivanova (Ольга Иванова), Betsy Karel, Rinko Kawauchi, Vaida Keleras, Yōko Kishikawa (岸川洋子), Fusako Kodama, Eriko Koga (古賀絵里子), Ljalja Kuznetsova (Ляля Кузнецова), Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Helen Levitt, Markéta Luskačová, Bertien van Manen, Mary Ellen Mark, Miyuki Matsuda, Susan Meiselas, Inge Morath, Yurie Nagashima, Mika Ninagawa, Kei Orihara, Chizuru Ōta (太田ちづる), Megumi Ōtsuka (大塚めぐみ), Doris Quarella, Emmanuelle Riva, Inta Ruka, Toshie Saitō (齋藤利江), Rosalind Solomon, Toyoko Tokiwa

Afghanistan
  • Farzana Wahidy (born 1984), documentary photographer concentrating on women's issues in Afghanistan

Algeria

Argentina
Main article: List of Argentine women photographers

Australia
Main article: List of Australian women photographers

Austria
Main article: List of Austrian women photographers

Azerbaijan
  • Rena Effendi (born 1977), interested in the environment, post-conflict society, the effects of oil industry on people and social disparity

Belarus

Belgium

Brazil

Cameroon

Canada
Main article: List of Canadian women photographers

China (People's Republic)
Main article: List of Chinese women photographers

Croatia

Cuba

Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic

Denmark
Main article: List of Danish women photographers

Egypt
Main article: List of Egyptian women photographers

Estonia
  • Ina Bandy (1903–1973), Tallinn-born humanist photographer, later based in Paris
  • Birgit Püve (born 1978), freelance photographer and photo editor
  • Katrina Tang (born 1985), fashion and portrait photographer
  • Ann Tenno (born 1952), landscape photographer and photo artist, noted for her photographs of Tallinn and the churches and manor houses of Estonia

Ethiopia

Finland

France
Main article: List of French women photographers

Gambia

Germany
Main article: List of German women photographers

Greece
  • Ianna Andreadis (born 1960), combines photography with her interest in archaeology, also landscapes from southern Africa
  • Venia Bechrakis (fl 2000s), artist and fine art photographer
  • Mary Kay (fl 2000s), landscape photographer
  • Nelly's (1899–1998), noted for her Greek temples, Berlin Olympics, later advertising, photo-reportages in the United States
  • Voula Papaioannou (1898–1990), photographer of Greek people and landscapes
  • Mary Paraskeva (1882–1951), possibly the first Greek woman to have left a large photographic legacy from the beginning of the 20th century
  • Athena Tacha (born 1936), conceptual photographer

Guatemala
  • María Cristina Orive (1931–2017), photographer, reporter and photojournalist, co-founder of the La Azotea publishing the work of Latin American photographers

Hong Kong

Hungary
  • Vivienne Balla (born 1986), fashion and fine art
  • Eva Besnyö (1910–2002), see Netherlands
  • Ghitta Carell (1899–1972), Hungarian-born Italian portrait photographer
  • Lili Zoe Ermezei (born 1988), portrait and conceptual photographer
  • Kati Horna (1912–2000), Hungarian-born Mexican photojournalist
  • Ata Kandó (1913-2017), see Netherlands
  • Judith Karasz (1912–1977), Bauhaus graduate
  • Ergy Landau (1896–1967), Hungarian-born photographer, worked in Vienna, Berlin and latterly in Paris
  • Mari Mahr (born 1941), Hungarian-British photographer
  • Olga Máté (1878–1961), early portrait photographer
  • Sylvia Plachy (born 1943), see United States
  • Ylla (born Camilla Koffler) (1911–1955), first to specialize in animal portraiture

Iceland

India

Iran
  • Sahar Ajdamsani (born 1996), singer, writer, photographer
  • Fatemeh Behboudi (born 1985), photojournalist and documentary photographer
  • Parisa Damandan (born 1967), has collected portrait photographs illustrating the history of Isfahan, continuing her work after the 2003 Bam earthquake
  • Solmaz Daryani (born 1989), photographer and photojournalist
  • Zahra Amir Ebrahimi (born 1981), photographer, television actress and short movies director
  • Shadi Ghadirian (born 1974), portraits of women dressed in traditional style, often juxtaposed with modern anomalies such as a mountain bike or cola can, now increasingly exhibited in the west
  • Hengameh Golestan (born 1952), pioneering woman photographer
  • Sooreh Hera (born 1973), artist and photographer
  • Setareh Hosseini (born 1993), actress and photographer
  • Zahra Kazemi (1948–2003), Iranian-Canadian freeland photojournalist who died following arrest in Iran after covering poverty, destitutions and oppression in the Middle East
  • Sanaz Mazinani (born 1978), Iranian-Canadian photographer and curator, installation based photography
  • Shirin Neshat (born 1957), photos of women confronted by Islamic fundamentalism, later working with multimedia and film
  • Ashraf os-Saltaneh (1863–1914), first woman photographer of Iran
  • Shirana Shahbazi (born 1974), conceptual photography, installations
  • Newsha Tavakolian (born 1981), Iranian documentary photographer
  • Maryam Zandi (born 1947), founding board member of Iran's National Society of Photographers, has published many calendars of Iranian portraits

Iraq

Ireland
Photograph by Jane Shackleton

Israel

Italy

Jamaica

Japan
Main article: List of Japanese women photographers

Kuwait

Latvia
  • Inta Ruka (born 1958), specializing in portraits of people in the areas where they live

Lithuania

Luxembourg
  • Deborah De Robertis (born 1984), performance artist and photographer
  • Marianne Majerus (born 1956), specializes in garden photography contributing widely to magazines and newspapers
  • Su-Mei Tse (born 1973), musician, artist and photographer

Mali

Malta

Mexico
Main article: List of Mexican women photographers

Netherlands
Main article: List of Dutch women photographers

New Zealand
Main article: List of New Zealand women photographers

Nigeria
Main article: List of Nigerian women photographers

Norway
Main article: List of Norwegian women photographers

Pakistan

Palestine
  • Karimeh Abbud (1896–1955), professional photographer in Nazareth in the 1930s, also producing postcards
  • Sama Raena Alshaibi (born 1973), Iraq-born Palestinian–US conceptual artist, using photography, also an academic
  • Rula Halawani (born 1964), photographer, photojournalist, educator
  • Emily Jacir (born 1972), artist in photography and other media, also an academic
  • Ahlam Shibli (born 1970), photographer of Bedouins of Palestinian descent

Peru

Poland
  • Leopoldyna Janusz (1862–1934)
  • Lotte Beese (1903-1988)
  • Ania Bien (born 1946), see United States
  • Helga Kohl (born 1943), Polish photographer based in Namibia
  • Margaret Michaelis-Sachs (1902–1985), Austrian-Australian photographer of Polish-Jewish origin, portraits, architecture of Barcelona, Jewish quarter in Cracow
  • Nata Piaskowski (1912–2004), Polish-born American photographer, portraits and landscapes, based in San Francisco
  • Zofia Rydet (1911–1997), documented postwar Poland
  • Faye Schulman (1924-2015), took photos during World War II
  • Joanna Zastróżna (born 1972), photographer and filmmaker

Portugal

Romania

Russia
Princess Olga Orlova at the 1903 Ball, a hand-tinted image of Princess Olga Orlova by Elena Mrozovskaya, now in the collection of the Hermitage Museum[1]

Singapore

South Africa
  • Jenna Bass (born 1986), film director, photographer and writer
  • Jodi Bieber (born 1966), known for taking the photograph of Bibi Aisha, the Afghanistan woman whose nose and ears were mutilated by her husband and brother-in-law
  • Hannelie Coetzee (fl 2000s), visual artist and professional photographer
  • Tracy Edser (born 1982), photojournalist and documentary producer
  • Vera Elkan (1908–2008), remembered for her images of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War
  • Constance Stuart Larrabee (1914–2000), South African's first female World War II correspondent, also known for images of South Africa
  • Carla Liesching (born 1985), visual artist specialising in photography
  • Nandipha Mntambo (born 1982), visual artist and photographer
  • Ruth Seopedi Motau (born 1968), professional photographer and photo editor
  • Zanele Muholi (born 1972), has used photography in support of LGBTI issues, several solo and group exhibitions since 2004
  • Neo Ntsoma (born 1972), known for being the first woman recipient of the Mohamed Amin Award, the CNN African Journalist of the Year Prize Photography
  • Jo Ractliffe (born 1961), photographer and teacher
  • Lesley Rochat (fl 2000s), conservationist and underwater photographer
  • Colla Swart (born 1930), photographs of people, landscapes and flowers in Namaqualand
  • Nontsikelelo Veleko (born 1977), depicts black identity
  • Gisèle Wulfsohn (1957–2011), covered the struggle against apartheid and HIV/AIDS awareness initiatives

South Korea
  • Jun Ahn (fl 2000s), photographer known for her Self-Portrait series
  • Bae Doona (born 1979), actress and photographer
  • Ina Jang (born 1982), South Korean photographer based in the United States
  • Miru Kim (born 1981), artist, photographer and arts events coordinator
  • Jungjin Lee (born 1961), photographer and artist based in New York
  • Nikki S. Lee (born 1970), self-portraits posing in various ethnic and social groups such as punks, hip-hop musicians, male partners
  • Soi Park (fl 2010s), fine art photographer

Spain
Main article: List of Spanish women photographers

Sweden
Main article: List of Swedish women photographers

Switzerland

Turkey
  • Eylül Aslan (fl 2000s), fine art photographer and feminist
  • Nilüfer Demir (born 1986), photojournalist and photographer
  • Elvin Eksioglu (born 1966), film director photographer and screenwriter
  • Semiha Es (1912–2012), Turkey's first female photojournalist, worked between 1950 and 1970s as a war photographer
  • Maryam Şahinyan (1911–1996), Turkey's first female photographer, managing a studio from 1937, archive of some 200,000 images
  • Naciye Suman (1881–1973), Turkey's first Muslim female photographer, owning a studio from 1919 to 1930

Ukraine

United Kingdom
Main article: List of British women photographers

United States
Main article: List of American women photographers

Uzbekistan
  • Umida Akhmedova (born 1955), photojournalist working in Central Asia, arrested in 2010 for her images of the Uzbek people

See also

References
  1. Exhibitions on tour: Princess Olga Orlova in masquerade Archived 2013-10-21 at the Wayback Machine, Hermitage Museum, retrieved 2013-10-19.

Further reading
  • Sullivan, Constance (1990). Women photographers. New York: Abrams. ISBN 0-8109-3950-9. OCLC 21042087.
  • Rosenblum, Naomi (2000). A history of women photographers. 2nd ed. New York: Abbeville Publishing Group (Abbeville Press, Inc.). ISBN 0-7892-0658-7. OCLC 43729073.
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