List of British women photographers

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), amateur photographer who pioneered colour in Gibraltar in 1903 and 1904 and later in Madeira
• Fiona Adams (1935–2020), known for photographing the Beatles
• Deborah Anderson (born 1970), photographer, musician, film director^[1][2][3]
• Nudrat Afza (born 1955), Bradford-based documentary photographer
• Heather Agyepong (fl 2018), photographer, visual artist and actor
• Heather Angel (born 1941), nature photographer
• Sue Arrowsmith (1950–2014), artist creating experimental photographic compositions
• Olivia Arthur (born 1980), documentary photographer
• Anna Atkins (1799–1871), botanist, first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images
• Emily Allchurch (born 1974), British artist known for using digital photography and lightbox art to create new works based on masterpieces of world art
• Anna Atkins (1799–1871), botanist and pioneering photographer, first person to publish a book containing photographs
• Shona Auerbach (fl 1996), photographer and cinematographer

B

• Marjorie Baker (1912–2004), documented changing life in Sussex from mid to late twentieth century
• Shirley Baker (1932–2014), known for street photography and street portraits
• 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
• Rebecca Lilith Bathory (born 1982), also known as Rebecca Litchfield
• Janette Beckman (fl 1970s), documentary photographer
• Mabel Bent (1847–1929), pioneer travel photographer, working in the Eastern Mediterranean, southern Africa and the Arabian peninsular
• Zarina Bhimji (born 1963), photographer of the effects of the expulsion of Asians from Uganda and other migration issues
• Dorothy Bohm (1924–2023), originally from Königsberg, initially portraits, later street photography, from 1985 in colour
• Gemma Booth (active since 2009), fashion photographer
• Ethel Booty (1873–1964), photographer of buildings
• Jane Bown (1925–2014), portrait photographer, also worked for The Observer
• Carla Borel (born 1973), French-British portrait and street photographer
• Sonia Boyce (born 1962), contemporary artist, photographer, educator
• Polly Braden (born 1974), documentary photographer,
• 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
• Alicia Bruce (born 1979), photographer and educator
• Zoë Buckman (born 1985), multi-media artist, photographer
• Cindy Buxton (born 1950), wildlife photographer, filmmaker

C

• Juno Calypso (born 1989), photographer who makes self-portraits
• Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879), notable early work, closely cropped portraits of celebrities, 800 of her works owned by the Royal Photographic Society
• Hilda Mabel Canter (1922–2007), mycologist and photographer
• Scarlett Carlos Clarke (born 1992), photographer and artist
• Natasha Caruana (born 1983), photographic artist
• Gayle Chong Kwan (born 1973), installation artist employing photography and video
• Margaret Chute (1886–1948), freelance photographer, active in Hollywood
• Araminta de Clermont (born 1971), artistic photographer
• Keturah Anne Collings (1862–1948), photographer, painter
• Hannah Collins (born 1956), contemporary artist, filmmaker, photographer
• Lena Connell (1875–1949), suffragette and photographer
• Joan Craven (1897–1979), photographer
• Elaine Constantine (born 1965), photographer, filmmaker
• Care Johnson (born 1993), photographer, blogger, makeup artist

D

• Muriel Darton (1882–1945), suffrage activist and professional photographer
• Siân Davey (born 1964)
• Corinne Day (1962–2010), fashion and documentary photographer
• Araminta de Clermont (born 1971), art photographer
• Venetia Dearden (born 1975), photographer, filmmaker
• Susan Derges (born 1955), photographic artist, camera-less photography
• Chloe Dewe Mathews (born 1982), documentary photographer
• Mary Dillwyn (1816–1906), 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
• Amelia Ellis (born 1977), German-British novelist and photographer

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
• Amy Flagg (1893–1965), historian and photographer
• 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
• Catriona Fraser (born 1972), photographer and art dealer
• Melanie Friend (born 1957), photographer, educator
• Jill Furmanovsky (born 1953), specialises in documenting rock musicians.

G

• Yishay Garbasz (born 1970), contemporary artist, photographer
• Sophie Gerrard (born 1978), documentary photographer
• Paula Rae Gibson (born 1968), art photography
• Fay Godwin (1931–2005), landscape photographer
• Leah Gordon (born 1959)
• Eva Grant (1925–2024), Greek–British figure photographer
• Yvonne Gregory, (1889–1970), society and figure photographer

H

• Pamela Hanson (active since 2001), fashion photographer
• Eleanor Hardwick (born 1993), contemporary artist, photographer, curator
• Emma Hardy (born 1963)
• Alice Seeley Harris (1870–1970), missionary, documentary photographer
• Clementina Hawarden (1822–1865), portrait photographer in the 1860s, predating Julia Margaret Cameron
• Claudette Holmes (born 1962), known for her representations of Black people
• Kate Holt (born 1972), Zimbabwe-born British photojournalist
• Alice Hughes (1857–1939), leading London portrait photographer specialising in images of fashionable women and children

I

• Nadine Ijewere (born 1992), fashion and portrait photographer

J

• Adama Jalloh (born 1993), portrait and documentary photographer
• Care Johnson (born 1993), photographer, retoucher, public speaker
• Andrea Jones (born 1960), garden photographer
• Elsbeth Juda (1911–2014), fashion photographer

K

• Ann Kelley (born 1941), children's writer, poet, photographer
• Barbara Ker-Seymer (1905-1993), photographer and society figure

L

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

M

• Neeta Madahar (born 1966), artistic photographer specialising in nature, birds and flora
• Jessie Mann (1805–1867), early Scottish photographer, assistant of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson
• Georgina Masson (1912–1980), photographer, non-fiction writer
• Chloe Dewe Mathews (born 1982), documentary photographer
• 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
• Margaret Mitchell (born 1968), Scottish portrait and documentary photographer
• Maria Mochnacz (fl 1990s), photographer and video music director
• 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
• Eileen Perrier (born 1974)
• Vinca Petersen (born c. 1972)
• Jill Posener (born 1953), lesbian photographer, playwright
• Sarah Pickering (born 1972)

Q

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

R

• Franki Raffles (1955–1994), social documentary photographer
• Eileen Ramsay (1915–2017), known for yachting and powerboat photography
• Suze Randall (born 1946), erotic photographer
• Sophy Rickett (born 1970), installation artist and photographer
• Edith Rimmington (1902–1986), surrealist artist, poet and photographer
• Grace Robertson (1930–2021), photojournalist contributing to Picture Post and Life in the 1950s
• Ellen Rogers (born 1983), portrait and fashion photographer
• 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
• Jo Metson Scott
• 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
• Sally Soames (1937–2019), newspaper photographer
• Jo Spence (1934–1992), known for her self-portraits depicting her fight against cancer
• Doreen Spooner (1928–2019), first female photographer on Fleet Street
• Marilyn Stafford (1925–2023), American-British photographer and photojournalist
• Hannah Starkey (born 1971), staged settings of women in city environments
• Jemima Stehli (born 1961), known for her naked self-portraits
• Hilary Stock (born 1964), fine art photographer
• Clare Strand (born 1973), conceptual photographer
• Maud Sulter (1960–2008), fine artist, photographer, writer and curator
• Ella Sykes (1863–1939), travel writer and photographer

T

• Mitra Tabrizian (born 1959), professor of photography at the University of Westminster
• Sam Taylor-Wood (born 1967), art photography, portraits
• Anya Teixeira (1913–1992), founded the Creative Photo Group
• Eveleen Tennant (1856–1937), photographer, family and visitors
• Alys Tomlinson (born 1975), portrait and landscape photographer
• Abbie Trayler-Smith, documentary and portrait photographer
• Amelia Troubridge (born 1974), portrait, documentary photographer
• Edith Tudor-Hart (1908–1973), photographer and Russian spy
• Emma Turner (1866–1940), pioneering bird photographer

V

• Florence Vandamm (1883–1966), photographer of Broadway productions
• Vivienne (1889–1982), photographer, singer, writer

W

• Maxine Walker (born 1962), focus on portraits of Black people
• Agnes Warburg (1872–1953), influential early colour photographer
• Gillian Wearing (born 1963), conceptual artist also working with photography, video and installations
• Alison Webster (died 2011), photojournalist
• Jeanie Welford (1854–1947), early commercial female photographer
• Janine Wiedel (born 1947), documentary photographer and visual anthropologist
• 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
• Rhonda Wilson (1953–2014), women's activist, photographer and writer
• 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

• List of women photographers

References