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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
  • Nudrat Afza (born 1955), Bradford-based documentary photographer
  • Heather Agyepong (born 1990), 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 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
  • Sunara Begum (born 1984), visual and performance artist, filmmaker, photographer and writer
  • 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
  • Sian Bonnell (born 1956), photographic artist
  • Gemma Booth (born 1974), 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

D

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

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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
  • Rita Martin (1875–1958), English photographer
  • Georgina Masson (1912–1980), photographer, non-fiction writer
  • Chloe Dewe Mathews (born 1982), documentary photographer
  • Jenny Matthews (born 1948), 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
  • Yevonde Middleton (1893–1975), pioneer of the use of colour in portrait photography.
  • Kirsty Mitchell (born 1976), photographer of staged scenes
  • 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
  • Maggie Murray (born 1942), photojournalist and documentary photographer
  • Tish Murtha (1956–2013), documentary photographer
  • Helen Muspratt (1907–2001), photographer

N

  • Cathleen Naundorf (born 1968), contemporary artist and fine art photographer
  • Caroline Emily Nevill (1829–1827), early photographer and pioneering member of the Photographic Exchange Club

O

  • Rachel Owen (1968–2016), Welsh photographer, printmaker and lecturer

P

Q

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

R

S

  • Pamela So (1947–2010), multimedia artist and photographer
  • 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

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
  • Dorothy Wilding (1893–1976), professional portrait photographer
  • 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

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