List of women photographers
Women have made significant contributions to photography since its inception. Notable participants include:
Algeria
- Zohra Bensemra (born 1968), photojournalist working mainly on conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa
Argentina
- Sara Facio (born 1932), celebrity portraitist and cofounder of La Azotea, South America's first photo publishing house
- Annemarie Heinrich (1912–2005), originally German, portrait photographer
- Adriana Lestido (born 1955), her black-and-white photographs document the often difficult place of women in society
- Grete Stern (1904–1999), originally German, a notable Modernist
Australia
- Narelle Autio (born 1969), photojournalist working first in Europe and the USA before returning to Australia in 1998 as staff photographer for the Sydney Morning Herald
- Polly Borland (born 1959), now living in England, known both for her portraits of famous Australians and for several series of stylized portraits
- June Browne (born 1923), photographs under the pseudonym Alice Springs
- Alex Cearns, animal photography
- Suzanna Clarke (born 1961), see New Zealand
- Olive Cotton (1911–2003), modernist photographer working in the 1930s and 1940s in Sydney, receiving commissions from the publisher Sidney Ure Smith
- Maggie Diaz (born 1925), American-born photographer, noted for her 1950s Chicago Collection
- Joyce Evans (born 1929), opened the first commercial photo gallery in Melbourne, later working herself in portraiture and landscapes, taught history of photography
- Anne Geddes (born 1956), stylized photographs of babies published in book-form or calendars
- Kate Geraghty (born 1973), photojournalist for the Sydney Morning Herald, covered the 2002 Bali bombings and 2003 invasion of Iraq
- Carol Jerrems (1949–1980), explored issues of sexuality, youth, identity and mortality
- Margaret Michaelis-Sachs (1902–1985), see Poland
- Tracey Moffatt (born 1960), explores issues of sexuality, history, representation and race
- Polixeni Papapetrou (born 1960), noted for her themed photo series about people's identities
- Alexia Sinclair (born 1976), fine-art photographer
- Ruby Spowart (born 1928), photographs of the Australian outback in the 1980s and 1990s
Austria
- Claire Beck (1904–1942), Jewish photographer in Vienna, died in the Riga concentration camp
- Gerti Deutsch (1908–1979), photojournalist for Picture Post and other publications, particularly keen on photographing music
- Trude Fleischmann (1895–1990), society photographer in Vienna, re-established her business in New York in 1940
- Dora Kallmus (1881–1963), fashion and portrait photographer
- Lotte Meitner-Graf (1899–1973), portrait photographer in Vienna until 1937 when she came to London, Great Britain
- Margaret Michaelis-Sachs (1902–1985), see Poland
- Lisette Model (1906–1983), see United States
- Inge Morath (1923–2002), Magnum photographer in London, then covered Europe, the Middle East and South America for Holiday, Paris Match and Vogue
- Margherita Spiluttini (born 1947), specializes in architecture
- Edith Tudor-Hart (1908–1973), social documentary in her adopted home in Great Britain
Azerbaijan
- Rena Effendi (born 1977), interested in the environment, post-conflict society, the effects of oil industry on people and social disparity
Belgium
- Marleen Daniels (born 1958), photojournalist turned fashion photographer
- Jennifer Des (born 1975), photographer
- Martine Franck (1938–2012), documentary photographer and portrait photographer
- Cindy Frey (active since 2003), musical bands photographer
- Nathalie Gassel (born 1964), writer, photographer
- Aglaia Konrad (born 1960), photographer, educator
- Diana Lui (born 1968), Malaysian-Belgian artist, photographer
- Germaine Van Parys (1893–1983), pioneering photojournalist who joined Le Soir in 1922
- Agnès Varda (born 1928), film director, photographer, educator
- Eva Vermandel (born 1974), has photographed in Iceland and Ireland
- Katrien Vermeire (born 1979), photographer, filmmaker
Brazil
- Ingeborg de Beausacq (1910–2003), see Germany
Cameroon
- Angèle Etoundi Essamba (born 1962), humanist photographer of Africa
Canada
- Vikky Alexander (born 1959), installation artist and photographer, often producing large murals
- Raymonde April (born 1953), photographer and academic, awarded the Order of Canada for her contribution to photography
- Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870-1942), see United States
- Reva Brooks (1913–2004), photographed in Mexico, works in MoMA's The Family of Man exhibition
- Geneviève Cadieux (born 1955), women's facial expressions
- Lynne Cohen (born 1944), see United States
- Petra Collins (born 1992), portrait and fashion photography
- Nathalie Daoust (born 1977), images taken in hotel rooms, a Tokyo love hotel, Berlin interiors
- Millie Gamble (1887–1986), early amateur photographer from Prince Edward Island, images of life in the Tyron area from 1905
- Jill Greenberg (born 1967), portraits and fine art work
- Heidi Hollinger (born 1968), world leaders, Russian politicians
- Zahra Kazemi (1948–2003), see Iran
- Laura Letinsky (born 1962), contemporary photography, still lifes
- Lorraine Monk (born c. 1926), photographer, helped establish the Canadian Museum of Photography, Order of Canada for contributions to photography
- Geraldine Moodie (1854–1945), pioneering photographer, images include the Innu people around Hudson Bay
- Julie Moos (born 1966), art photography
- Farah Nosh (active since 2002), Iraqi-Canadian photojournalist
- Nina Raginsky (born 1941), worked freelance for the National Film Board of Canada, best known for frontal, full-figure portraits
- Clara Sipprell (1885–1975), early 20th century landscape photographer, also known for her portraits of famous actors, artists, writers and scientists
- Margaret Watkins (1884–1969), remembered for her contributions to advertising photography
China (People's Republic)
- Chen Man (born 1980), fashion photographer using digital techniques to produce covers for Chinese and international magazines
- Hou Bo (born 1924), portraits (and less formal photographs) of leading officials including Mao Zedong and the founding of the People's Republic in 1949
- Shao Hua (1938–2008), daughter-in-law of Mao Zedong, photographed party celebrities, factories and army units in the 1950s, head of the China Photographers Association
- O Zhang (born 1976), photographs of Chinese youth including Chinese girls adopted by Americans and Chinese art students in London
- Zhang Jingna (born 1988), now in Singapore, professional photographer for companies including Mercedes Benz and Canon, has also contributed to Harper's Bazaar, Elle and Flare
Croatia
- Sanja Iveković (born 1949), photographer, sculptor and installation artist, creating photographic works early in her career, earning her the Camera Austria Award
Cuba
- Marta María Pérez Bravo (born 1959), black-and-white photography expressing mythological beliefs
- Lissette Solorzano (born 1969), medical photographer, photojournalist, widely exhibited
Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic
- Veronika Bromová (born 1966), specialist in new media applications
- Eva Fuka (born 1927), see United States
- Markéta Luskačová (born 1944), social photographer, often covering children, also London's markets
- Emila Medková (1928–1985), influenced by surrealism
- Lucia Moholy (1894–1989), born in Prague, produced many of the photographs associated with the Bauhaus school, later working as a stage photographer in Berlin
- Marie Šechtlová (1928–2008), the poetry of the everyday
Denmark
- Jette Bang (1914–1964), large collection of photographs of Greenland depicting the lifestyle of the Greenlandic Inuit
- Sisse Brimberg (born 1948), staff photographer for National Geographic completing some 30 stories, now living in Scotland
- Helena Christensen (born 1968), fashion photographer contributing to Nylon, Marie Claire, and Elle
- Frederikke Federspiel (1839–1913), one of the first female photographers to practice in Denmark, an early user of dry plates and flash powder
- Marianne Grøndahl (1938–2012), documentary photographer working in the theatrical environment, also in advertising and portraiture
- Thora Hallager (1821–1884), one of Denmark's earliest female photographers, practicing daguerrotyping from around 1850
- Johanne Hesbeck (1873–1927), portrait photographer in Holte, north of Copenhagen
- Kirsten Klein (born 1945), landscape photographer on the island of Mors with a melancholic style achieved by using older techniques
- Astrid Kruse Jensen (born 1975), specializing in night photography often with very long exposure times
- Julie Laurberg (1856–1925), portrait and court photographer in Copenhagen
- Rigmor Mydtskov (1925–2010), court photographer, also worked in the theatre environment
- Mary Steen (1856–1939), Denmark's first female court photographer, opened a studio in 1884, encouraged women to take up photography
- Mary Willumsen (1884–1961), from 1916 produced postcards of women in scanty clothing, now considered an artistic contributor
- Benedicte Wrensted (1859–1949), opened a studio in Horsens in the 1880s before emigrating to the United States where she photographed Native Americans
Estonia
- Ann Tenno (born 1952), landscape photographer and photo artist, noted for her photographs of Tallinn and the churches and manor houses of Estonia
Finland
- Eija-Liisa Ahtila (born 1959), conceptual photographer and video artist
- Signe Brander (1869–1942), cityscapes of Helsinki
- Nanna Hänninen (born 1973), chaotic objects, urban landscapes, and plants with repainting
- Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen (born 1948), has photographed the Newcastle district of Byker and created a Coal Coast series on the beach between Seaham and Hartlepool
- Susanna Majuri (born 1978), captures short narrative scenes as if film stills
France
- Martine Barrat (date of birth unknown), based in New York, has photographed the black inhabitants of Harlem since the early 1980s
- Claude Batho (1935–1981), remembered for the detailed images of her home and for her series on Claude Monet's garden at Giverny
- Valérie Belin (born 1964), whose photographs have played with the distinction between illusion and reality
- Alexandra Boulat (1962–2007), photojournalist and co-founder of the VII Photo Agency
- Claude Cahun (1894–1954), photographer and artist, remembered for her self-portraits (1927–47)
- Sophie Calle (born 1953), writer, photographer and installation artist, also photography professor
- Dominique Darbois (born 1925), photojournalist who has concentrated on the victims of European colonialism
- Françoise Demulder (1947–2008), war photographer
- Geneviève Élisabeth Disdéri (c.1817–1878), early photographer, wife of André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri
- Claudine Doury (born 1959), photojournalist
- Gisèle Freund (1908–2000), German-born, known for her documentary photography and portraits of writers and artists
- Laure Albin Guillot (1879–1962), portraits of Paris celebrities, wide variety of other genres, several high-ranking administrative positions
- Florence Henri (1893–1982), surrealist
- Irina Ionesco (born 1935), erotic images of lavishly dressed women posing provocatively
- Germaine Krull (1897–1985), photographically-illustrated books, photojournalism
- Brigitte Lacombe (born 1950), photographer of film sets
- Ergy Landau (1896-1967), see Hungary
- Catherine Leroy (1945–2006), photojournalist, particularly known for her photography of the Vietnam war
- Benedicte Van der Maar (* 1968), art photography,human photography
- Dora Maar (1907–1997), both a commercial and a street photographer in the 1920s and 30s
- Sarah Moon (born 1941), fashion photographer, now concentrating on gallery work
- Janine Niépce (1921–2007), prolific photojournalist
- Bettina Rheims (born 1952), strip-tease artists and acrobats, stuffed animals, also advertising, and photography of nude women making her a best-seller
- Sophie Ristelhueber (born 1949), who has photographed the effects of war on landscape
- Emmanuelle Riva (born 1927), primarily an actor but also a noted and published photographer
- Lise Sarfati (born 1958), images of listless young people in Russia and the United States
- Stéphane Sednaoui (born 1963), reportages, portraits, fashion
- Christine Spengler (born 1945), photojournalist who has concentrated on the victims of war
- Agnès Varda (born 1928), film director and photographer, documentary realism, feminist issues
- Véronique de Viguerie (born 1978), photojournalist, particularly known for her photography of the most recent Afghan war
Germany
- Gertrud Arndt (1903–2000), created self-portraits from around 1930
- Ellen Auerbach (1906–2004), see United States
- Uta Barth (born 1958), art photography
- Ingeborg de Beausacq (1910–2003), fashion and society photographer in Brazil
- Hilla Becher (born 1934), together with her brother Bernd, produced typologies of industrial buildings and structures
- Katharina Behrend (1888–1973), see Netherlands
- Sibylle Bergemann (1941–2010), chronicler of social life in East Germany
- Emilie Bieber (1810–1884), pioneer who opened a studio in Hamburg as early as 1852
- Aenne Biermann (1898–1933), of the New Objectivity movement
- Ilse Bing (1899–1998), versatile photographer (fashion, architecture, etc.) from the 1920s to the 1950s, often using remarkable compositions
- Anna Blume (born 1937), staged photographs and installations, often depicting herself and her husband Bernhard
- Dorothy Bohm (born 1924), see United Kingdom
- Marianne Breslauer (1909–2001), active in the early 1930s
- Frauke Eigen (born 1969), photographer of the aftermath of war in Kosovo
- Gisèle Freund (1908–2000), see France
- Marie Goslich (1859–1936), photographer of social issues, etc., for magazines
- Liselotte Grschebina (1908–1994), see Israel
- Roswitha Hecke (born 1944), photojournalist
- Annemarie Heinrich (1912–2005), see Argentina
- Lotte Herrlich (1883–1956), photographer of naturism during the 1920s
- Hannah Höch (1889–1978), pioneer of photomontage, participated in the Dada movement
- Candida Höfer (born 1944), highly precise large-format depictions of guest workers in Germany, interiors, zoos, capturing the psychology of social architecture
- Lotte Jacobi (1896–1990), initially family photography, then shots of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, from 1935 studio in Manhattan, portraits of celebrities
- Astrid Kirchherr (born 1938), photographed the Beatles before they became famous
- Katrin Korfmann (born 1971), fine art photographer
- Erna Lendvai-Dircksen (1883–1962), photographer of rural individuals, collected in books that sold well in the Nazi period
- Esther Levine (born 1970), urban and street photography
- Loretta Lux (born 1969), fine art photographer known for surreal portraits of young children
- Rut Blees Luxemburg (born 1967), photographer of night scenes
- Melanie Manchot (born 1966), specializes in photographs of people in public, sometimes inviting them to undress
- Hansel Mieth (1909–1998), see United States
- Lucia Moholy (1894–1989), see Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic
- Hedda Morrison (1908–1991), early photographs of Peking, Hong Kong and Sarawak, later lived and exhibited in Australia
- Anja Niedringhaus (1965–2014), photojournalist, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Margret Nissen (born 1938), photographer of architecture
- Anne-Katrin Purkiss (born 1959), portrait photographer
- Katja Rahlwes (born 1967), photographer of fashion and butts
- Ursula Richter (1886–1946), dance and theatre photography in Dresden
- Leni Riefenstahl (1902–2003), film director and dancer who also published photos of the Nuba tribes in Sudan and, later, marine life
- Frieda Riess (1890–c. 1955), German portrait photographer in the 1920s with a studio in central Berlin
- Thyra Schmidt (* 1974), art photography and new media artist
- Stefanie Schneider (born 1968), photographer of the American west
- Ursula Schulz-Dornburg (born 1938), photographer in black and white
- Katharina Sieverding (born 1944), self-portraitist
- Annegret Soltau (born 1946), stitched photomontages of the human body
- Grete Stern (1904–1999), see Argentina
- Gerda Taro (1910–1937), early female war photographer, remembered for her coverage of the Spanish Civil War, especially Valencia, published in Life and Illustrated London News
- Ellen von Unwerth (born 1954), photographer of erotic femininity
- Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann (1815–1901), Germany's first professional female photographer with a studio in Leipzig from 1843
Greece
- Ianna Andreadis (born 1960), combines photography with her interest in archaeology, also landscapes from southern Africa
- Nelly's (1899–1998), noted for her Greek temples, Berlin Olympics, later advertising, photo-reportages in the United States
- Mary Paraskeva (1882–1951), possibly the first Greek woman to have left a large photographic legacy from the beginning of the 20th century
- Athena Tacha (born 1936), conceptual photographer
Guatemala
- María Cristina Orive (born 1931), photographer, reporter and photojournalist, co-founder of the La Azotea publishing the work of Latin American photographers
Hong Kong
- Wong Wo Bik (graduated 1977), architectural photographer
Hungary
- Vivienne Balla (born 1986), fashion and fine art
- Eva Besnyö (1910–2002), see Netherlands
- Ata Kandó (born 1913) see Netherlands
- Ergy Landau (1896–1967), Hungarian-born photographer, worked in Vienna, Berlin and latterly in Paris
- Sylvia Plachy (born 1943), see United States
Iceland
- Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir (born 1978), whose work posted to Flickr led to employment in advertising campaigns
India
- Pamella Bordes (born 1961), worked as an international photojournalist for Gamma Press Photos, exhibitions include notable images from India and Cambodia, also self-portraits
- Indrani (born mid-1960s), fashion photographer in New York, also celebrity portraits of David Bowie, Iman and Beyoncé
- Saadiya Kochar (born 1979), first worked with the human body, portraits and then documentary (Kashmir)
- Dayanita Singh (born 1961), first photojournalism, later portraits and documentary work including Goa
- Sooni Taraporevala (born 1957), a screenwriter also working in photography, especially of India's Parsi Zoroastrian community
- Homai Vyarawalla (1913–2012), India's first woman photojournalist, covered celebrities including Gandhi, Nehru, Jinnah and Indira Gandhi
Iran
- Parisa Damandan (born 1967), has collected portrait photographs illustrating the history of Isfahan, continuing her work after the 2003 Bam earthquake
- Shadi Ghadirian (born 1974), portraits of women dressed in traditional style, often juxtaposed with modern anomalies such as a mountain bike or cola can, now increasingly exhibited in the west
- Zahra Kazemi (1948–2003), Iranian-Canadian freeland photojournalist who died following arrest in Iran after covering poverty, destitutions and oppression in the Middle East
- Sanaz Mazinani (born 1978), Iranian-Canadian photographer and curator, installation based photography
- Shirin Neshat (born 1957), photos of women confronted by Islamic fundamentalism, later working with multimedia and film
- Shirana Shahbazi (born 1974), conceptual photography, installations
- Mitra Tabrizian (born 1959), British-Iranian, professor of photography at the University of Westminster, photobook Correct Distance, a critique of corporate culture
- Newsha Tavakolian (born 1981), Iranian documentary photographer
- Maryam Zandi (born 1947), founding board member of Iran's National Society of Photographers, has published many calendars of Iranian portraits
Iraq
- Halla Ayla (born 1957), photographer, painter
Israel
- Elinor Carucci (born 1971), see United States
- Liselotte Grschebina (1908–1994), German-born, emigrated to Palestine, roots in New Vision
- Tal Shochat (born 1974), fine arts photographer
Italy
- Letizia Battaglia (born 1935), photojournalist in Sicily, specializing in coverage of the Mafia for the newspaper L'Ora
- Vanessa Beecroft (born 1969), photographer and performance artist, now in Los Angeles
- Yvonne De Rosa (born 1975), art photography
- Tina Modotti (1896-1942), born in Italy, worked as a fine art photographer and documentarian, with Edward Weston, ran a studio in Mexico City
- Dianora Niccolini (born 1936), pioneer of male nude photography
- Virginia Oldoini (1837–1899), early proponent, estheticially interested in images of herself, large collection in Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Floria Sigismondi (born 1965), fashion, installations, video
Jamaica
- Esther Anderson (born 1946), portraits and documentary work
- Renée Cox (born 1960), see United States
Japan
- Mikiko Hara (born 1967), colour snapshots of people or things in everyday life, often causing feelings of levity or foreboding
- Hiromix (born 1976), life from a teenager's perspective and photo books on identity, community, gender and the everyday
- Hisae Imai (1931–2009), specialized in the photography of horses
- Miyako Ishiuchi (born 1947), contrasty prints including close-ups of the very old
- Rinko Kawauchi (born 1972), serene, poetic photography
- Fusako Kodama (born 1945), depicted Japan as a nation of high technology, and life in Tokyo
- Michiko Kon (born 1955), new approach to mainly black-and-white still lifes with images of everything from toothbrushes to timepieces and fish parts[1]
- Miyuki Matsuda (born 1961), an actor who has published photography of nudes
- Michiko Matsumoto (born 1950), portraits of artists and dancers living in various countries
- Yurie Nagashima (born 1973), portraits, including portraits of herself and her family in the nude, street photography, still lifes
- Mika Ninagawa (born 1972), brightly coloured photographs of flowers, goldfish and landscapes, commercially successful in fashion and advertising
- Rika Noguchi (born 1971), landscape photographer
- Yoshino Ōishi (born 1944), widely travelled photojournalist
- Yuki Onodera (born 1962), images of everyday objects such as old clothes, tin cans, birds, houses shining in the darkness, and human figures[2]
- Kei Orihara (born 1948), documentary and portrait photographer, has published books on life in New York, and books for children about the disabled
- Tsuneko Sasamoto (born 1914), Japan's first female photojournalist, has photographed some of the country's greatest personalities and historic moments[3]
- Shima Ryū (1823–1899), earliest known Japanese woman photographer, photographed her husband in 1864, later opened a studio in Kiryū
- Mieko Shiomi (1909–1984), abstraction and realism, known for her monochrome compositions
- Kunié Sugiura (born 1942), creator of photograms
- Cozue Takagi (born 1985), creator of montages
- Toyoko Tokiwa (born 1930), best known for her depiction of the red-light district of post-occupation Yokohama, for a clientele of US servicemen
- Eiko Yamazawa (1899–1995), portrait photographer and founder of a photography school
- Miwa Yanagi (born 1967), staged events with women of various ages, frequently using the computer to alter the image in strange ways, several published series including Elevator Girls
- Ruiko Yoshida (born 1938), has published several photobooks designed to fight against discrimination towards the poor and blacks, best known for Harlem Black Angels[4]
Latvia
- Inta Ruka (born 1958), specializing in portraits of people in the areas where they live
Lithuania
- Esther Shalev-Gerz (born 1957), installation artist who also exhibits her photography
- Audronė Vaupšienė (born 1965), fashion photographer and collaborator in artworks
Luxembourg
- Marianne Majerus (born 1956), specializes in garden photography contributing widely to magazines and newspapers
Mexico
- Lola Álvarez Bravo (1907–1993), documentary images of village life, director of photography at the Mexican National Arts Institute
- Blanca Charolet (born 1953), photojournalist and portrait photographer
- Flor Garduño (born 1957), especially documenting native peoples, portraits of women[5]
- Maya Goded (born 1967), especially documenting people from hidden or shunned communities
- Lourdes Grobet (born 1940), has made a study of lucha libre
- Graciela Iturbide (born 1942), shows everyday life, especially that of indigenous peoples
- Teresa Margolles (born 1963), portrays death
- Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier (born 1966), marine biologist and conservation photographer, founder International League of Conservation Photographers
- Tina Modotti (1896–1942), see Italy
- Dulce Pinzon (born 1974), Mexican and Latin immigrants in the United States, figures dressed as superheroes
- Mariana Yampolsky (1925–2002), travel photography and documentary work on Mexico's rural areas
Netherlands
- Emmy Andriesse (1914–1953), noted for her clandestine photography of the Netherlands under Nazi rule
- Katharina Behrend (1888–1973), German-born Dutch amateur photographer, wide variety of genres including a nude self-portrait
- Eva Besnyö (1910–2002), Dutch-Hungarian photographer active in the Dutch "New Photography" movement
- Ania Bien (born 1946), see United States
- Marrie Bot (born 1946), pilgrimages, mentally handicapped, multicultural funeral and mourning rituals
- Rineke Dijkstra (born 1959), portraits of adolescents
- Jacqueline Hassink (born 1966), visual artist, noted for her Table of Power projects related to the world economy; also lectures on photography
- Ata Kandó (born 1913) noted for her Dream in the Wood fantasy photos, Hungarian refugee photos and Amazonian indigenous images
- Inez van Lamsweerde (born 1963), fashion photographer
- Dana Lixenberg (born 1964), portrait photographer
- Alexandrine Tinné (1835–1869), first female photographer in the Netherlands, produced large images in The Hague
- Ans Westra (born 1936), see New Zealand
New Zealand
- Suzanna Clarke (born 1961), freelance photojournalist based in Australia, contributing to many international journals, also travel photography in Asia and Europe
- Eileen Olive Deste (1908–1986), born in the UK, started a photography business in Dunedin in 1930, later in Wellington where she covered the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition
- Amy Merania Harper (1900–1998), ran Auckland's Amy Harper Studios from 1928, notable bridal photography and portraits, founding member of the New Zealand Professional Photographers’ Association
- Alyson Hunter (born 1948), now in London, developed a new etching technique for street scenes, later standard portraiture
- Thelma Rene Kent (1899–1946), landscapes, especially South Island heights, also photographed animals and birds
- Elizabeth Pulman (1836–1900), possibly New Zealand's first female photographer, studio in Auckland from the late 1860s, portraits and landscapes of historical interest
- Jane Ussher (born 1953), portraits, New Zealand Listener's chief photographer, also photographed Scott's and Shackleton's Antarctic expedition huts
- Ans Westra (born 1936), emigrated from the Netherlands in 1957, documentary photographer, known for her images of the Māori
Nigeria
Norway
- Catherine Cameron (born 1962), covers still life, street photography, landscape with a poetic approach always using black-and-white film[6]
- Anne Helene Gjelstad (born 1956), fashion and lifestyle photographer
- Elisabeth Meyer (1899–1968), photojournalist known for her work in Iran and India in the 1920s and 1930s including portraits of Mahatma Gandhi
- Mimsy Møller (born 1955), press photographer working for Dagsavisen, active in the women's photo group Here
- Hanneli Mustaparta (born 1982), fashion photographer contributing to Vogue
Palestine
- Karimeh Abbud (1896–1955), professional photographer in Nazareth in the 1930s, also producing postcards
- Sama Raena Alshaibi (born 1973), Iraq-born Palestinian–US conceptual artist, using photography
- Emily Jacir, artist in photography and other media, also an academic
- Ahlam Shibli (born 1970), photographer of Bedouins of Palestinian descent
Poland
- Lotte Beese
- Ania Bien (born 1946), see United States
- Margaret Michaelis-Sachs (1902–1985), Austrian-Australian photographer of Polish-Jewish origin, portraits, architecture of Barcelona, Jewish quarter in Cracow
- Nata Piaskowski (1912–2004), Polish-born American photographer, portraits and landscapes, based in San Francisco
- Faye Schulman, took photos during World War II
Romania
- Alexandra Croitoru (born 1975), seeks to challenge accepted ideas of power sharing and gender in Romania
Russia
- Lena Herzog (born 1970), see United States
- Ida Kar (1908–1974), known for her portraits of artists and writers
- Nina Leen (died 1995), see United States
- Diana Markosian (born 1989), documentary photographer who has photographed the north Caucasus and central Asia
Singapore
- Zhang Jingna (born 1988), see China (People's Republic)
South Africa
- Vera Elkan (1908–2008), remembered for her images of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War
- Constance Stuart Larrabee (1914–2000), South African's first female World War II correspondent, also known for images of South Africa
- Zanele Muholi (born 1972), has used photography in support of LGBTI issues, several solo and group exhibitions since 2004
- Colla Swart (born 1930), photographs of people, landscapes and flowers in Namaqualand
- Nontsikelelo Veleko (born 1977), depicting black identity
- Gisèle Wulfsohn (1957–2011), covered the struggle against apartheid and HIV/AIDS awareness initiatives
South Korea
- Nikki S. Lee (born 1970), self-portraits posing in various ethnic and social groups such as punks, hip-hop musicians, male partners
Spain
- Cristina García Rodero (born 1949), specializing in festivals and other rites
- Cristina Martín Lara (born 1972), her photographs seek to trigger emotional responses to the environment in which we live
- Ouka Leele (born 1957), involved in the Madrid Movement, widely published in Spanish journals
- Isabel Muñoz (born 1951), black-and-white pictures of the human body, toreros and dancers
- Cristina Otero (born 1995), self-portraits
Sweden
- Sofia Ahlbom (1803–1868), feminist, practiced as a photographer from the 1860s
- Ingrid Falk (born 1960), installation artist
- Marianne Greenwood (1916–2006), photographed Picasso and other artists in Antibes after the Second World War, later photographing the peoples of the Pacific islands and parts of Asia
- Brita Sofia Hesselius (1801-1866), Sweden's first professional female photographer, opening a studio in Karlstad in 1845
- Tuija Lindström (born 1950), noted for her black-and-white pictures of women in a black lake addressing feminist issues
- Elisabeth Ohlson (born 1961), photographs sexual minorities, noted for her 1998 Ecce Homo portraying Jesus among homosexuals
- Anna Riwkin-Brick (1908-1970), portrait and dance photography, photo-journalistic work
- Hilda Sjölin (1835–1915), one of Sweden's first professional female photographers, opening a studio in Malmö in 1861
- Bertha Valerius (1835–1915), official photographer of the Royal Swedish court
Switzerland
- Hélène Binet (born 1959), first photographed in the Grand Théâtre de Genève before turning to architectural photography, now based in London
- Lucienne Bloch (1909–1999), see United States
- Henriette Grindat (1923–1986), an artistic photographer in the post-war period inspired by the surrealistic trends of the times
- Ella Maillart (1903–1997), travel photography
- Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908–1942), prolific writer and photographer, leaving some 50 photo reports documenting the rise of the Nazis in Germany and her travels to the Middle East and the United States
Turkey
- Semiha Es (1912–2012), Turkey's first female photojournalist, worked between 1950 and 70's as a war photographer
- Maryam Şahinyan (1911–1996), Turkey's first female photographer, managing a studio from 1937, archive of some 200,000 images
Ukraine
- Elena Filatova (born 1974), photographs of the Chernobyl area
- Anya Teixeira (1913-1992), took up amateur photography in London when 47, often working with children and actors, also founded the Creative Photo Group
United Kingdom
- 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), British nature photographer
- Anna Atkins (1799–1871), a botanist, the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images
- Lisa Barnard (born 1967), documentary photographer, political artist, and senior lecturer on documentary photography at University of South Wales
- 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
- Jane Bown (born 1925), notable portrait photographer, also worked for The Observer
- Zana Briski (born 1966), documentary, especially insects
- Christina Broom (1862–1939), said to be Britain's first female press photographer
- 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
- Corinne Day (1962–2010), fashion and documentary photographer
- Frances Sally Day (c1816–1892), first woman to photograph Queen Victoria
- 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
- Olive Edis (1876–1955), portraits and early autochromes, diascope viewer
- 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
- Jill Furmanovsky (born 1953), see Zimbabwe
- Paula Rae Gibson (born 1968), art photography
- Fay Godwin (1931–2005), leading British landscape photographer of her day
- Clementina Hawarden (1822–1865), notable portrait photographer in the 1860s, predating Julia Margaret Cameron
- Alice Hughes (1857–1939), leading London portrait photographer specializing in images of fashionable women and children
- Alyson Hunter (born 1948), see New Zealand
- Elsbeth Juda (born 1911), fashion photographer
- Etheldreda Laing (1872–1960), early autochrome photographs
- Marianne Majerus (born 1956), see Luxembourg
- 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
- Caroline Emily Nevill (1829–1827), early photographer and pioneering member of the Photographic Exchange Club
- Laura Pannack (born 1985), social documentaries and portraits
- Terri Quaye (born 1940), musician, ethnographic photographer
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Hannah Starkey (born 1971), staged settings of women in city environments
- Clare Strand (born 1973), a conceptual photographer
- Maud Sulter (1960–2008), fine artist, photographer, writer and curator
- Mitra Tabrizian (born 1959), see Iran
- Sam Taylor-Wood (born 1967), art photography, portraits
- Anya Teixeira (1913–1992), see Ukraine
- Edith Tudor-Hart (1908–1973), see Austria
- 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
- 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
United States
- Kathryn Abbe (born 1919), worked for Vogue in the early 1940s, later freelance, subject include children, musicians and actors
- Berenice Abbott (1898–1991), black-and-white photography of New York's architecture in the 1930s, part of the straight photography movement
- Harriet Chalmers Adams (1875–1937), explorer whose expedition photographs were published in National Geographic
- Marian Hooper Adams (1843–1885), early portrait photographer, also local landscapes
- Lynsey Addario (born 1973), photojournalist often focusing on the role of women in traditional societies
- Laura Aguilar (born 1959), strong feminist focus
- Sama Raena Alshaibi (born 1973), see Palestine
- Jane Fulton Alt (born 1951), documented Hurricane Katrina
- Nancy Lee Andrews (born 1947), fashion, music covers
- Eleanor Antin (born 1935), also works with video, film, performance and drawing
- Amy Arbus (born 1954), a New York City–based photographer
- Diane Arbus (1923–1971), black-and-white photographs of deviant and marginal people
- Laura Adams Armer (1874–1963), portraiture in San Francisco, images of the Navajo
- Eve Arnold (1913–2012), photojournalist with Magnum Photos
- Kristen Ashburn (born 1973), photojournalist covering AIDS in southern Africa, tuberculosis and Hurricane Katrina
- Jane Evelyn Atwood (born 1947), documentary photographer living in Paris
- Ellen Auerbach (1906–2004), German-born Jewish immigrant, remembered for pre-war work in her Berlin studio
- Alice Austen (1866–1952), from Staten Island, producing some 8,000 photographs from 1884
- Elizabeth Axtman (born 1980), emphasis on race in American culture
- Catharine Weed Barnes (1851–1913), early female editor of photographic journals, strong supporter of women photographers
- Tina Barney (born 1945), large-scale portraits of family and friends
- Martine Barrat (date of birth unknown), see France
- Ruth-Marion Baruch (1922–1997), series on the Black Panthers and the San Francisco Bay area
- Lillian Bassman (1917–2012), early fashion photographer for Harper's Bazaar
- Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870–1942), born in Canada, first published female photojournalist in the United States
- Carol Beckwith (born 1945), photographer of the indigenous tribal cultures of Africa
- Vanessa Beecroft (born 1969), see Italy
- Zaida Ben-Yusuf (1869–1933), portraits of notable Americans at the turn of the 19th–20th century, portrait gallery in New York from 1897
- Lynne Bentley-Kemp (born 1952), fine arts photographer, photography educator, and researcher
- Berry Berenson (1948–2001), freelance photographer publishing in Life, Glamour, Vogue and Newsweek
- Nina Berman (born 1960), documentary photographer, military focus
- Ruth Bernhard (1905–2006), nude photography of women and commercial photography in Hollywood
- Ania Bien (born 1946), Polish-American photographer now in Amsterdam, focus on discrimination and refugees
- Joan E. Biren (born 1946), focus on lesbians and feminism
- Nadine Blacklock (1953–1998), nature photographer around Lake Superior
- Julie Blackmon (born 1966), children and family life
- Andrea Blanch (born 1946), portraits of celebrities, especially Italian men
- Lucienne Bloch (1909–1999), Swiss-born American artist and photographer, remembered for association with Diego Rivera
- Gay Block (born 1942), portrait photographer of Jewish life in Texas, Miami Beach, and Christian Rescuers from WWII; has published several photobooks
- Debra Bloomfield (born 1952), has worked in landscape since 1989; recent work has been described as "reflective activism"
- Thérèse Bonney (1894–1978), photojournalist remembered for her images of the Russian-Finnish front in World War II
- Alice Boughton (c.1867–1943), theatrical portraits, worked with Gertrude Käsebier, member of the Photo-Secession movement
- Margaret Bourke-White (1906–1971), first foreigner to photograph Soviet industry, first female war correspondent and first woman photographer for Life
- Louise Arner Boyd (1887–1972), explorer who took hundreds of photographs of the Arctic, detailed photographic documentation of Poland in 1934
- Louise Boyle (1910–2005), documented African-American farm workers in Arkansas during the Great Depression
- Marilyn Bridges (born 1948), ancient sites around the world
- Sheila Pree Bright (born 1967), fine art photographer
- Anne Brigman (1869–1950), one of the original members of the Photo-Secession movement, images of nude women (including self-portraits) from 1900 to 1920
- Charlotte Brooks (born 1918), photojournalist, staff photographer for Look
- Ellen Brooks (born 1946), pro-filmic approach, often photographing through screens
- Kate Brooks (born 1977), photojournalist specializing in the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Adrien Broom (born 1980), fashion and fine art photographer specializing in images of young women
- Esther Bubley (1921–1998), expressive photos of ordinary people, later specializing in children in hospitals and other medical themes
- Elizabeth Buehrmann (c. 1886–c. 1963), pioneer of home portraits
- Shirley Burman (born 1934), women in railroad history
- Eleanor Butler Alexander-Roosevelt (1888–1960), images of dignitaries, travel photos of Europe and Asia
- Evelyn Cameron (1868–1928), British born photographer who moved to Terry, Montana where she documented everyday life in the Old West
- Marion Carpenter (1920–2002), the first female national press photographer and the first woman to cover the White House
- Elinor Carucci (born 1971), an Israeli-American who has exhibited widely since 1997 and now teaches photography in New York City
- Dickey Chapelle (1919–1965), photojournalist known for her work as a war correspondent in World War II and the Vietnam War
- Rose Clark (1852–1942), pictorialist photographer
- Lynne Cohen (born 1944), large prints of domestic and institutional interiors, now lives in Montreal
- Carolyn Cole (born 1961), staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times
- Marjory Collins (1912–1985), photojournalist, covered the home front during World War II
- Nancy Ford Cones (1869–1962), early photographer from Loveland, Ohio, where she documented country life
- Lois Conner (born 1951), noted particularly for her platinum print landscapes that she produces with a 7" x 17" format banquet camera
- Linda Connor (born 1944), spiritual locations
- Marjorie Content (1895–1984), Native Americans
- Martha Cooper (born 1940s), staff photographer from the New York Post in the 1970s
- Kate Cordsen (born 1964), known for large format landscapes
- Tee Corinne (born 1943), lesbian photographer
- Marie Cosindas (born 1925), still life and color portraits, one of the first the exhibit color photographs at MoMA
- Honey Lee Cottrell, lesbian photographer, known for her work in On Our Backs
- Renée Cox (born 1960), Jamaican-born politically motivated photographer
- Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976), known for her botanical photography, nudes and industrial landscapes
- Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895–1989), fashion photographer for Harper's Bazaar
- Judy Dater (born 1941), best known for her book Imogen and Twinka about the photographer Imogen Cunningham
- Lynn Davis (born 1944), large-scale black-and-white photographs specializing in monumental landscapes and architecture
- Mary Devens (1857–1920), prominent pictorial photographer of the early 20th century
- Maggie Diaz (born 1925), see Australia
- Jessica Dimmock (born 1978), documentary photographer, covered drug addicts in New York over eight years
- Carolyn Drake (born 1971), documentary photographer, particularly of central Asia
- Susan Eakins (1851–1938), artist and photographer, wife of Thomas Eakins, maintained her own studio using photography as a basis for her art
- Sandra Eisert (born 1952), first White House picture editor in 1974
- Cynthia Elbaum (1966–1994), photojournalist killed while working in Chechnya
- Jill Enfield (born 1954), hand coloring artist best known for her work in alternative photographic processes
- Marion Ettlinger (born 1949), author portraits for book jackets
- Emma Justine Farnsworth (1860–1952), photographer whose works were displayed at the World's Columbian Exposition (1893) and the Paris Exposition (1900)
- Deanne Fitzmaurice (born 1957), photojournalist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 2005
- Trude Fleischmann (1895–1990), see Austria
- Susan Ford (born 1957), photojournalist, daughter of President Gerald Ford
- Mary Lou Foy (born 1944), picture editor at the Washington Post
- Toni Frissell (1907–1988), fashion photography, World War II photographs
- Eva Fuka (born 1927), a native of Prague, she is noted for her melancholic works and surreal effects
- Helen K. Garber (born 1954), black and white city landscapes
- Emme Gerhard (1872–1946), worked with her sister Mayme in St. Louis, images of Native Americans and other ethnic groups
- Mayme Gerhard (1876–1955), worked with her sisiter Emme in St. Louis, images of Native Americans and other ethnic groups
- Wilda Gerideau-Squires (born 1946), African-American fine art photographer
- Paola Gianturco (born 1939), photojournalist covering women in difficulty
- Laura Gilpin (1891–1979), Native Americans (Navajo) and Pueblo and Southwestern landscapes
- Barbara Gluck (born 1938), photojournalism, especially Vietnam
- Nan Goldin (born 1953), gay and transsexual communities, New York's hard-drug subculture, skylines
- Suzy Gorman (born 1962), celebrity portraits
- Karen Graffeo (born 1963), portraits, documentary
- Katy Grannan (born 1969), portraits
- Beth Green (born 1949), photojournalist
- Jill Greenberg (born 1967), portraits, covers
- Lauren Greenfield (born 1966), documentary photographer and filmmaker
- Caroline Gurrey (1875–1927), portraitist in Hawaii at the beginning of the 20th century, remembered for her series on mixed-race Hawaiian children
- Carol Guzy (born 1956), Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post photographer
- Gail Albert Halaban (born 1970), staged portraits
- Masumi Hayashi (1945-2006), photo-collage works on topics such as Japanese internment camps, abandoned prisons, city works
- Alexandra Hedison (born 1969), abstract landscapes
- Diana Mara Henry (born 1948), photojournalist
- Lena Herzog (born 1970), Russian-born documentary and fine art photographer
- Elizabeth Heyert (born 1951), experimental portraiture
- Carol M. Highsmith (born 1946), architectural coverage throughout the United States
- Martha Holmes (1923-2006), photojournalist, staff photographer and later freelancer for Life
- Roni Horn (born 1955), explores the mutable nature of art combining photography with drawing, sculpture and installations, also notable photo books
- Edith Irvine (1884–1949), documentary work including the San Francisco earthquake
- Lotte Jacobi (1896–1990), see Germany
- Marcey Jacobson (1911–2009), indigenous peoples of southern Mexico
- Belle Johnson (1864–1945), portraiture, including character studies, and photographs of animals (especially cats)
- Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864–1952), early photojournalist, first woman to have a studio in Washington D.C., portraits of celebrities for magazines
- Sarah Louise Judd (1802–1886), early photographer in Minnesota taking daguerrotypes in 1848
- Consuelo Kanaga (1894–1978), portraits including African-Americans
- Gertrude Käsebier (1852–1934), very influential, strong supporter of women photographers, her work covered Native Americans, portraits, commercially very successful
- Emy Kat (born 1959), fashion, advertising
- Mary Morgan Keipp (1875–1961), art photography, African-Americans
- Miru Kim (born 1981), art photography
- Helen Johns Kirtland (1890–1979), photojournalist and war correspondent, coverage of World War I
- Deborah Copaken Kogan (born 1966), photojournalist
- Barbara Kruger (born 1945), conceptual black-and-white photography
- Justine Kurland (born 1969), fine art photography
- Sarah Ladd (1860–1927), early pictorial and landscape photographer
- Kay Lahusen (born 1930), first openly gay photojournalist of the gay rights movement
- Wendy Sue Lamm (born 1964), photojournalist noted for her images of Palestine
- Dorothea Lange (1895–1965), documentary photographer and photojournalist, covered the Great Depression
- Alma Lavenson (1897–1989), documented California's Gold Rush
- Nina Leen (died 1995), Russian-born American photographer, avid contributor to Life, remembered above all for her photographs of animals
- Adelaide Hanscom Leeson (1875–1931), early photo-illustrated books
- Annie Leibovitz (born 1949), portrait photographer, worked for Rolling Stone magazine and later Vanity Fair
- Zoe Leonard (born 1961), photography of New York City, photos of the fictional Fae Richards for the film The Watermelon Woman
- Rebecca Lepkoff (born 1916), street scenes on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1940s
- Sherrie Levine (born 1947), appropriation photography
- Helen Levitt (1907–2009), street photography around New York City
- Jacqueline Livingston (born 1943), women's role, sexual intimacy
- Ruth Harriet Louise (1903–1940), first woman photographer active in Hollywood, running Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's portrait studio from 1925 to 1930
- Elizabeth Gill Lui (born 1951), abstract collage
- Vivian Maier (1926–2009), unknown during her lifetime, her street photographs of Chicago were first published in 2011
- Sally Mann (born 1951), large black-and-white photographs of young children, then later of landscapes suggesting decay and death
- Malerie Marder (born 1971), human intimacy
- Mary Ellen Mark (1940–2015), known for photojournalism, portraits and advertising photography, also covered homelessness, drug addiction and prostitution
- Diana Markosian (born 1989), see United States
- Margrethe Mather (1886–1952), collaborated with Edward Weston
- Rebecca Matlock (born 1928), images from Moscow and Czechoslovakia
- Kate Matthews (1870–1956), photographed scenes of everyday life in Pewee Valley, Kentucky, also as illustrations for Annie Fellows Johnston's The Little Colonel books
- Dona Ann McAdams (born 1954), performance photography
- Linda McCartney (1942–1998), photographed pop stars in the 1960s
- Melodie McDaniel (born 1967), celebrity portraits, fashion, advertising
- Laura McPhee (born 1958), art photography
- Susan Meiselas (born 1948), documentary photographer working for Magnum Photos, covering human rights issues in Latin America and the Nicaraguan Revolution
- Florence Meyer (1911–1962), celebrity portrait photographer
- Hansel Mieth (1909–1998), born in Germany, joined Life magazine in 1937 until the early 1950s, photographing the Japanese at internment camps during World War II
- Lee Miller (1907–1977), fashion photographer in Paris, war correspondent for Vogue covering the London blitz and the liberation of Paris
- Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier (born 1966), see Mexico
- Lisette Model (1906–1983), born in Austria, first photographed the upper classes in Nice in 1934, later worked for PM magazine in New York, also publishing in Harper's Bazaar
- Andrea Modica (born 1960), photography professor
- Jeannette Montgomery Barron (born 1956), portraits
- Barbara Morgan (1900–1992), photographed modern dancers, co-founder of Aperture
- Lida Moser (born 1920), photojournalism, documentaries and street photography, contributed to Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Look and Esquire
- Helen Messinger Murdoch (1862–1956), pioneered the use of autochromes in travel photography
- Nelly's (1899–1998), see Greece
- Bea Nettles (born 1948), alternative techniques
- Liz Nielsen (active since 2002), traditional analogue photographer
- Anne Noggle (1922–2005), a photographer after a career as an aviator, depicted the ageing process of women and as curator introduced other women photographers to the public
- Dorothy Norman (1905–1997), amateur portrait photographer
- Catherine Opie (born 1961), addresses documentary photography, professor of photography at UCLA
- Kei Orihara (born 1948), see Japan
- Ruth Orkin (1921–1985), photojournalist contributing to Life, Look and Ladies' Home Journal, later teaching photography in New York City
- Marvin Breckinridge Patterson (1905–2002), photojournalist, published world travel photographs in Vogue, National Geographic, Look, Life, Town & Country, and Harper's Bazaar
- Stacy Pearsall (born 1980), military photographer, twice winner of the NPPA Military Photographer of the Year award
- Nata Piaskowski (1912–2004), see Poland
- Dulce Pinzon (born 1974), see Mexico
- Sylvia Plachy (born 1943), born in Hungary, has published photo essays and portraits in The New York Times Magazine, The Village Voice and The New Yorker, also personal coverage of Central Europe
- Anita Pollitzer (1894–1975), associated with Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz
- Greta Pratt (born 1955), known for documenting staged American history[7]
- Melanie Pullen (born 1975), specializes in large prints (from four to ten feet) of crime scenes, specially set up using models and crew
- Jane Reece (1868–1961), pictorial photographer, portraits, autochromes
- Nancy Rexroth (born 1946), plastic camera work
- Cherie Roberts (born 1978), nude models
- Ruth Robertson (1905–1998), photojournalist remembered for her work on the Angel Falls in Venezuela, establishing them as the tallest in the world
- Ann Rosener (1914–2012), photographed home front activities for the Farm Security Administration in 1942–43
- Barbara Rosenthal (born 1948), avant-garde artist, using photography along with video, installation and digital media to achieve surreal photography
- Louise Rosskam (1910–2003), documented life during the Great Depression
- Marissa Roth (born 1958), photojournalist who was part of the team who won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots
- Eva Rubinstein (born 1933), intimate views of people and (often empty) interiors
- Liza Ryan (born 1965), film and photography installations
- Virginia Schau, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, in 1954
- Stefanie Schneider (born 1968), see Germany
- Collier Schorr (born 1963), portraits of young men and women
- Sarah Choate Sears (1858–1935), portraits and still lifes from the 1890s
- Cindy Sherman (born 1954), conceptual portraits, staged photographs of herself
- Marilyn Silverstone (1929–1999), photojournalist who came to specialize in India and the Himalayas
- Taryn Simon (born 1975), creator of projects involving large numbers of photographs
- Lorna Simpson (born 1960), documentary street photographer who moved into ethnic divisions and racism in the 1980s
- Sandy Skoglund (born 1946), surrealist photographer creating tableaux based on her own sets
- Polly Smith (1908–1980), photographed life in Texas in the 1930s
- Rosalind Solomon (born 1940), New York based photographer of the world, most notably Peru, in square monochrome
- Melissa Springer (born 1956), photojournalist
- Ellen Stagg (born 1978), advertising, fashion
- Susan Hacker Stang (born 1949), alternative cameras, also academic
- Sally Stapleton (born 1957), executive photo editor at Associated Press until 2003
- Amy Stein (born 1970), staged views, frequently with animals
- Nellie Stockbridge (c. 1868–1965), early Idaho mining district photographer
- Zoe Strauss (born 1970), shuttered buildings, empty parking lots and vacant meeting halls in South Philadelphia
- Nancy M. Stuart, portrait photographer; photography educator and administrator
- Rachel Sussman (born 1975), living organisms at least 2,000 years old
- Maggie Taylor (born 1961), artistic digital imaging
- Joyce Tenneson (born 1945), fine art photographer, often of nude or semi-nude women, with cover images on a range of periodicals including Time, Life and Entertainment Weekly
- Beatrice Tonnesen (1871–1958), early views of live models for advertising
- Barbara Traub, street photography, landscapes, portraits
- Mellon Tytell (born 1945), award-winning fashion and editorial photographer, did documentary series on Haiti and portraits of figures from the Beat Generation
- Doris Ulmann (1884–1934), known for her portraits of craftsmen and musicians from Appalachia
- Penelope Umbrico (born 1957), known for her abstract photographs of commonplace objects
- Raissa Venables (born 1977), surreal interiors
- Ami Vitale (born 1971), photojournalist and documentary work, National Geographic photographer
- Elizabeth Flint Wade (1849–1915), pictorial work exhibited jointly with Rose Clark
- Eva Watson-Schütze (1867–1935), pictorial-style portraits, founding member of Photo-Secession
- Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953), concerned with the problems of African Americans, often staging sets for her images
- Alisa Wells (1927–1987), experimental photography
- Annie Wells (born 1954), Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist
- Eudora Welty (1909–2001), documentary work on the rural poor in Mississippi from the early 1930s and the effects of the Great Depression
- Myra Albert Wiggins (1869–1956), pictorial work, member of the Photo-Secession movement
- Hannah Wilke (1940–1993), performance artist and photographer
- Laura Wilson (born 1939), photographic essayist
- Sharon Wohlmuth (born 1946), photojournalist and best-seller author
- Marion Post Wolcott (1910–1990), worked for Farm Security Administration documenting poverty during the Great Depression
- Linda Wolf (born 1950), early work on French covers village life, later bus benches in the United States and multicultural portraits for Los Angeles billboards
- Penny Wolin (born 1953), portraiture, visual anthropology, concerned with documenting American Jewish culture
- Francesca Woodman (1958–1981), black-and-white photographs of herself and nude female models
- Yelena Yemchuk (born 1970), fashion, advertising and album photography, also videos
Uzbekistan
- Umida Akhmedova (born 1955), photojournalist working in Central Asia, arrested in 2010 for her images of the Uzbek people
Zimbabwe
- Jill Furmanovsky (born 1953), rock photographer now based in London
Gallery
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See also
References
- ^ Ann Elliott Sherman, "Something Fishy", Metro, 17 August 2000. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
- ^ "Yuki Onodera" (2005), The National Museum of Art, Osaka. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
- ^ Lucy Birmingham, "The ‘plucky pioneer’ of photojournalism", The Japan Times, 24 September 2010. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
- ^ "Ruiko Yoshida", Woman.type.jp. Template:Jp icon Retrieved 25 February 2013.
- ^ http://www.florgarduno.com/
- ^ Jim Casper, "New Photography from Norway and Beyond", LensCulture. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
- ^ John Leland. "Looking Like Lincoln". The New York Times.
Further reading
- Sullivan, Constance (1990). Women photographers. New York: Abrams. ISBN 0-8109-3950-9. OCLC 21042087.
- Rosenblum, Naomi (2000). A history of women photographers. 2nd ed. New York: Abbeville Publishing Group (Abbeville Press, Inc.). ISBN 0-7892-0658-7. OCLC 43729073.
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