RPS Women in Photography

What Sustains Me

We’re delighted to share that voting is now live for our latest In the Frame challenge, What Sustains Me.

Our members have created a thoughtful and moving collection of images — each one offering a personal reflection on what keeps us grounded, inspired, and moving forward. If you’re an RPS Women in Photography member, we’d love you to take a few moments to explore the gallery and vote for the image that resonates most with you.

The photographer with the most votes will receive a copy of An Equal Difference by Gabrielle Motola — a beautifully produced photobook exploring identity, balance and social progress.

A Women in Photography Challenge

We’re inviting you to recreate — and reimagine — a work of art through photography.

Choose a painting, sculpture, or iconic artwork and bring it to life in your own way. You might recreate it faithfully, reinterpret it in a contemporary setting, or respond to it with a completely new perspective.

This challenge is about more than replication. It’s about how we see, represent, and reframe art today.

Discover the women shaping our community and explore their work, stories and projects.

Would you like to be featured? We’d love to include more members. Send a square profile image (1:1 format, equal width and height so it displays correctly), up to 75 words about your practice, and a link to your photography to wipchair@rps.org.

We’re now at an exciting stage of The 40% Project. After photographing women MPs across the UK, we are developing a book to bring this important portrait series together — marking the moment women reached around 40% representation in Parliament.

As a volunteer-led project, we are seeking a small number of partners to help bring the publication to life.

We’re keen to connect with organisations who value representation, women’s leadership, photography, and documenting history as it happens.

If this resonates — or you know someone it might suit — we would love to hear from you.

— Sue Wright @ wipchair@rps.org

View the portraits submitted, so far!

Celebrating Women in Parliament

Join inspiring, member and professional-led events celebrating women photographers. From talks to meet-ups and exhibition visits, it’s a great way to connect and share creativity. Got an idea? Let’s make it happen—get in touch!

Discover Video Stories — short films and slideshows by members of RPS Women in Photography, bringing photography to life through motion, sound, and storytelling.

Celebrating the work of women photographers, these are our stories...

The RPS Women in Photography Group aims to facilitate the celebration, education and collaboration of female and female-identifying photographers. 

We are not a genre. 

We are the discussion that drives a greater awareness of the importance of women photographers past, present and future.

Licentiate, is the first level of Distinction within the RPS carrying the postnominals LRPS. It is demanding but achievable for most photographers.