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Women In Photography

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Love Is A Life Story image by Ruth Toda-Nation
CREDIT: Ruth Toda-Nation
Ruth Toda-Nation
Featured Photographer

Love is a Life Story: Friendship in the Face of Covid

After the pandemic hit, Ruth Toda-Nation used her camera to document the enduring friendship between her father, John, and his neighbour, Mary. Ruth movingly chronicled everyday life and challenges for older people navigating often confusing lockdown regulations. The resulting work, Love is a Life Story, was a winner in the RPS Documentary Project Awards, and is part of a touring exhibition starting in May 2024.

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Playing with the Shadows © Paula Brandao
CREDIT: Paula Brandao
Karni Arieli
Featured Photographer

Eye Mama: Poetic Truths of Home and Motherhood

Karni Arieli in conversation with WE ARE Magazine’s Poppy French

I had the opportunity to speak to Karni Arieli when she was in the thick of it with the printing and promotion of her long-awaited book, Eye Mama: Poetic Truths of Home and Motherhood; the arresting 200 image book which accompanies Karni’s long-term project, social movement and open collective virtual space started during lockdown, Eye Mama. Karni spoke to me from the Bristol studio she shares with her partner Saul Freed, with whom she also directs commercials, musical videos and short films.

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 Winner Under 18 The Beauty Of Soap Bubbles By Kelly Zhang
CREDIT: Kelly Zhang
Kelly Zhang
Featured Photographer

How to do Bubble Photography

Kelly Zhang is a young photographer based in New York, USA, specialising in abstract macro photography. Inspired by the scientific phenomena behind soap bubbles, Kelly began photographing them in 2022. Kelly has received several awards for her work, including first place in the 2022 American Association of Physics Teachers High School Physics Photo Contest and Honourable Mention in the 19th Julia Margaret Cameron Award. She shares her creative process for photographing soap bubbles

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Bathing by Tower Bridge © Julia Fullerton-Batten
CREDIT:  Julia Fullerton-Batten
Julia Fullerton-Batten
Featured Photographer

The Art of the Storyteller, an interview with Julia Fullerton-Batten by Teri Walker.  Julia Fullerton-Batten is a fine-art photographer renowned for her highly cinematic visual storytelling. Her large-scale projects are based around specific themes. Each image in the project embellishes her subject matter in a series of thought-provoking narrative stories using staged tableaux and sophisticated lighting techniques.

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Wipselfportrait Freedom1
CREDIT: Kathryn Chapman
Kathryn Chapman
Featured Photographer

A Selfie Changed My Life by Kathryn Chapman

Please note: This article contains references to suicide which some individuals may find distressing.

Kath is a portrait and self-portrait photographer, speaker and mentor, specialising in transformation through creativity. She is a passionate felt-sense advocate, fascinated in exploring the powerful potential to see ourselves better through art.

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Barrie, Part Time Farm Worker, Howfen Portraits Series (C) Marge Bradshaw Photography
CREDIT: Marge Bradshaw
Marge Bradshaw
Featured Photographer

Developing a second career as a photographer and socially engaged artist, by Marge Bradshaw

Marge Bradshaw is a socially engaged documentary and portrait photographer interested in people, place, and heritage. She uses a mixture of photography and ethnographic research to share the stories of participants, often giving a platform for voices in communities who are not usually heard. She also works commercially as a cultural events photographer, brand photographer and family documentary photographer.

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Finding The Strength To Fly
CREDIT: Honey J Walker, ARPS
Honey J Walker ARPS
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Photography + Women = Alchemy by Honey J Walker, ARPS. Honey J Walker, ARPS is a London based abstract and aerial photographer, exploring colour, metaphor and emotional intelligence throughout her work. Her process involves in-camera multiple exposure and hand-finishing with encaustic or gold leaf. 

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Gigi Chung Cocoontower
CREDIT: Gigi Chung
Gigi Chung
Featured Photographer

Tokyo Hustle By Gigi Chung.  Gigi Chung is a California based fine art photographer specialising in abstract architecture. She distills complex scenes into bold sculptural forms; emphasising lines, shapes and contrast with conscious inclusion of aesthetically pleasing elements. She is a contributor to Tagree, Jaamzin and Medium Format Magazine.

 

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Heybesee A1
CREDIT: Alice Chapman
Alice Chapman
Featured Photographer

Hey! Be. See. By Alice Chapman.  When I was a kid, we had a frieze on the playroom wall; Margaret Tempest’s An ABC for You and Me. We had the book too; a perfect little square of pictures. Each showed a watercolour animal with an object that began with the same letter as their name. There’s something so magical in childhood about anthropomorphic characters and I spent hours looking at the pictures.

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My Journery to ARPS Distinction by Alison Mees, ARPS
CREDIT: Alison Mees, ARPS
My Journey to ARPS Distinction by Alison Mees, ARPS
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Since I watched Born Free at five years old I have had a fascination for Africa, especially its cats. I dreamed of having my own lion cub but, living in Essex, that proved a little difficult.

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RPS Chandelier From Possession
CREDIT: Julie Derbyshire
Julie Derbyshire
Featured Photographer

An interview with Julie Derbyshire. I have enjoyed taking photographs since childhood and my interest continued for a long time alongside other career paths. About ten years ago I decided I wanted to focus on my passion for photography and I studied for a BA and subsequently an MA.

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Frankie Mcallister
CREDIT: Frankie Mcallister
Frankie McAllister
Featured Photographer

An  interview with Frankie McAllister. "I think the main thing (and the hardest thing) is to work out what it is you are really trying to say or do with your work, what your direction is. Once you have done that, then stand by it, be confident about it."

 

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Cold Start
CREDIT: Jayne Odell
Jayne Odell
Featured Photographer

An interview with Jayne Odell. "Take photographs that you want to take. Develop your style. Listen to others and take on board constructive comments but don’t let negatives influence your work."

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Gigi Chung, Seoul
CREDIT: Gigi Chung, Seoul
Gigi Chung
Featured Photographer

Seoul Architecture: Right Place Right Time by Gigi Chung.   Gigi Chung is a California-based fine-art photographer specialising in abstract architecture. She distills complex scenes into bold sculptural forms; emphasising lines, shapes and contrast with conscious inclusion of aesthetically pleasing elements. 

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Give us Features, not Flowers by Helene Jelenc and Sandra Potisek
CREDIT: H Jelenc and S Potisek
Helene Jelenc and Sandra Potisek
Featured Photographers

Give us Features, not Flowers by Helene Jelenc and Sandra Potisek.  Examining gender bias in the photography industry and digital landscape.  Women have contributed to the history of photography as much as any man, but many people probably struggle to name a few.

 

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 Documentary Family Photography: art of the ordinary by Alice Chapman
CREDIT: Alice Chapman
Alice Chapman
Featured Photographer

Documentary Family Photography: art of the ordinary by Alice Chapman.    I still remember the moment years ago, when I realised documentary family photography was a “thing” . I’d been photographing families for a few years and had been drawn to outtakes or behind the scenes style images.

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Flawed Beauty by Paloma Tandero
CREDIT: Flawed Beauty by Paloma Tandero
Paloma Tandero
Featured Photographer

Flawed Beauty by Paloma Tandero.  My first projects started with the exploration of somatising, the subconscious transformation of psychological conflicts into organic symptoms.

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Kathy Anne Lim
CREDIT: Kathy Anne Lim
Kathy Anne Lim
Featured Photographer

Kathy Anne Lim (b.1991) is a photographer & visual artist with roots along the eastern shores of Singapore. Her poetic documentary work focuses on themes of memory, technology and displacement— contents of which mix absolute certainty and misty ephemerality.

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What MADRE Taught Me by Marisol Menendez
CREDIT: Marisol Menendez
Marisol Menendez
Featured Photographer

What MADRE Taught Me.  Marisol Mendez was born in Bolivia and received a BA in Audio visual communication in Buenos Aires and a Masters in Fashion Photography at the University of the Arts London.

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Take Me to Live With You,  an interview with Sonia Lenzi
CREDIT: Sonia Lenzi
Sonia Lenzi
Featured Photographer

Take me to Live With You, an interview with Sonia Lenzi.  Sonia is a photographer and visual artist. Her artistic practice adopts an interdisciplinary approach and revolves around interrelated themes concerning identity, memories of people and places, mortality and gender.

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Mhairi Law, Island Tales
CREDIT: Mhairi Law
Mhairi Law
Featured Photographer

Island Tales. Mhairi Law is an award winning photographer based on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. She uses medium-format film to capture island landscapes and evidence of human interactions within it.

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Cebe Loomis
CREDIT: Cebe Loomis
Cebe Loomis
Featured Photographer

An interview with Ceebe Loomis. "If you can just take the time to stop, listen and watch, there is so much to learn from and be inspired by right in front of your own eyes."

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Marianne Van Loo Morning ritual
CREDIT: Marianne Van Loo
Marianne Van Loo
Member

An interview with Marianne van Loo. "I am inspired by current affair issues when working on a documentary project. I love travelling and am inspired, through my travels, to photograph different cultures."

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Too Many Blackamoors (#9), 2015, Heather Agyepong. (Courtesy Of The Artist Autograph ABP)
CREDIT: Heather Akosua Ageypong
Heather Agyepong
Featured Photographer

In interview with Heather Agyepong.   "With such a huge amount of time on our hands it’s really important to check in with yourself and really pay attention to your mental health. Joining online collectives/network can be a great way of getting support, inspiration and advice too." 

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