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.
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
See also
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