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Hundred Heroines Museum 🏛️ @hundredheroines.org · Aug 4

Join us on Friday for the Garden Party in #Nailsworth - Mortimer Gardens to enjoy the fabulous #photography #exhibition Poisoned Futures?

Details on website 👇👇👇

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Garden Party Invitation - Poisoned Futures

Join us in Mortimer Gardens for an early evening gathering beneath the trees to celebrate the summer season and the artists, thinkers and changemakers shaping a better future.

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Hundred Heroines Museum 🏛️ @hundredheroines.org · Jul 4

📸 OPEN CALL 🌍
Are you under 25 and passionate about the planet? Enter our #Green photography competition for young creatives.
Show us your vision for a greener future.
Deadline: August 31

#PhotoForPlanet #VisualActivism #Under25 #EcoVisions #GreenLens

More info: hundredheroines.org/featured/gre...

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ScotlandYardCSI @scotlandyardcsi.bsky.social · Jun 30

I’m so grateful for all the wonderful Audible reviews. They truly mean the world to me. Thank you! 🧡

If you haven’t yet, grab your copy for just £5.99 during Audible’s July deal and hear what everyone’s talking about! 🎧✨

#TrueCrime #Photography #Forensics #CSI #ForensicPhotography #BookSky #Books

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Hundred Heroines Museum 🏛️ @hundredheroines.org · Jun 28

We're at #Nailsworth Market this morning with a pop-up Dada stall! Come and visit, meet artist Anne Zahalka and make your own Dada collage or poem!

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ScotlandYardCSI @scotlandyardcsi.bsky.social · Jun 16

A Rare Look Back at the Earliest Women in #Photography

It took a full 150 years for a museum to acknowledge that the work of Julia Margaret Cameron, a pioneering 19th-century photographer, merited an exhibition.

www.wmagazine.com/culture/earl...

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A Rare Look Back at the Earliest Women in Photography

Their photos—taken in the 19th and early 20th century—have still barely gotten the recognition they deserve.

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ScotlandYardCSI @scotlandyardcsi.bsky.social · Jun 10

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ScotlandYardCSI @scotlandyardcsi.bsky.social · Jun 10

#WomenPhotographers

The Weimar Republic era (1918–1933) saw a notable rise in female photographers who challenged traditional gender roles.

Women #photographers like Grete Stern, Ilse Bing, Marta Astfalck-Vietz, and others helped redefine both #photography and women's place in society.

Thomas Schulz @bildersturmblog.bsky.social · Jun 9

Fotografieren hieß teilnehmen. Fotografinnen der Weimarer Republik (1994). This volume was issued for an exhibition of female photographers of the Weimar Republic.

photoblog1965.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/f...

#women #theatre #photobooks #streetphotography #portraitphotography #bwphotography

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Thomas Schulz @bildersturmblog.bsky.social · Jun 9

Fotografieren hieß teilnehmen. Fotografinnen der Weimarer Republik (1994). This volume was issued for an exhibition of female photographers of the Weimar Republic.

photoblog1965.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/f...

#women #theatre #photobooks #streetphotography #portraitphotography #bwphotography

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Hundred Heroines Museum 🏛️ @hundredheroines.org · Jun 7

Excited about our next #photography 📷 #exhibition opening next week. Stay tuned for further details!

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Hundred Heroines Museum 🏛️ @hundredheroines.org · Jun 4

Last week to apply - great #opportunity for
#photography 📷 students. #ParisPhoto

www.parisphoto.com/en-gb/progra...

Carte Blanche Students

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Hundred Heroines Museum 🏛️ @hundredheroines.org · Jun 1

Born #OTD 1822 Clementina Hawarden. She shattered the stereotype of how women should be portrayed, but at the time, her photographs of her daughters were considered provocative and risqué ...

#WomenInPhotography 📷 #PhotoHistory
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Clementina Hawarden

Lady Clementina Hawarden (1822-1865) was a prolific amateur photographer, best known for taking portraits of her daughters.

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Ben Lewis @theuniversalben.bsky.social · May 31

Collage is my favourite art medium

Hundred Heroines Museum 🏛️ @hundredheroines.org · May 31

Died #OTD 1978 the awesome Hannah Höch. Stay tuned for a Höch inspired Dada installation in the Art Garden this summer 😎

#WomenArtists

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Hundred Heroines Museum 🏛️ @hundredheroines.org · May 31

Died #OTD 1978 the awesome Hannah Höch. Stay tuned for a Höch inspired Dada installation in the Art Garden this summer 😎

#WomenArtists

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Hundred Heroines Museum 🏛️ @hundredheroines.org · May 31

Last chance to see this fab 📷 #exhibition tomorrow
#WomenInPhotography

Aleks Koutny @koutny.bsky.social · May 31

On until Sunday 1st June: 'A Visual Homage to Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska' @hundredheroines.org . Ania Ready and two artists’ collectives have created photographic responses to Sophie’s work, including a display that also references the paintings of Susanna by the Italian artist #Artemisia #Gentileschi

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Hundred Heroines Museum 🏛️ @hundredheroines.org · May 25

A few here
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ScotlandYardCSI @scotlandyardcsi.bsky.social · May 24

Grateful for a review of The Darkroom in the Spring 2025 edition of The Photo Historian, the journal of the Royal Photographic Society’s Historical Group.

Honoured to be included in a publication with such a respected legacy.

#Photography #WomenPhotographers #PhotographyBooks #ForensicPhotography

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Hundred Heroines Museum 🏛️ @hundredheroines.org · May 24

Born #OTD 1935 Elisabeth Buchmeyer Lewis would’ve turned 90 today.

We hold her archive, and it’s full of magic: Ian Dury, Hannah Francis, Robert Plant - stars, cars and more.

A true heroine of the lens.

#WomenInPhotography

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ScotlandYardCSI @scotlandyardcsi.bsky.social · May 20

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ScotlandYardCSI @scotlandyardcsi.bsky.social · May 20

#WomenPhotographers

“She was a woman in a man’s world, and a woman who succeeded at what she did in a man’s world,” says Marilyn Kushner, curator of “The Duchess of Carnegie Hall: Photographs by Editta Sherman” at the New-York Historical Society.

www.artsy.net/article/arts...

This Self-Made Photographer Captured—and Charmed—Decades of New York Stars

From a tiny apartment above Carnegie Hall, Editta Sherman captured the stars of old New York, from June Carter Cash to Andy Warhol.

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Hundred Heroines Museum 🏛️ @hundredheroines.org · May 23

#Opportunity 📢📢📢

MARILYN STAFFORD FOTOREPORTAGE AWARD 2025 for #WomenInPhotography 📸

Extended deadline - today at 17:00

Find out more 👇👇👇

fotodocument.org/fotoaward/

FotoAward – FotoDocument

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Hundred Heroines Museum 🏛️ @hundredheroines.org · May 18

Born #OTD 1953 Helen Chadwick. 🇬🇧 #photographer & installation artist, questioned representation of the ♀️ body. One of the first ♀️artists nominated for the Turner Prize; through teaching became a strong influence on the Young British Artists.

#WomenArtists

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Helen Chadwick

A pioneer of photography and installation art, Helen Chadwick (1953-1996) was one of the first women to be nominated for the Turner Prize.

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Hundred Heroines Museum 🏛️ @hundredheroines.org · May 17

🎉 Happy 85th Birthday to the iconic VALIE EXPORT! 🎂

#VALIEEXPORT #FeministArt #WomenInPhotography

Hundred Heroines Museum 🏛️ @hundredheroines.org · May 17

Our volunteers are visiting #PhotoLondon this week. We'll be posting some of their highlights today.

First up Mitra Tabrizian in the "London Lives" exhibition.

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ScotlandYardCSI @scotlandyardcsi.bsky.social · May 11

#WomenPhotographers #VEDay80

“By sharing this collection, we hope to honour the contributions of these #women #photographers and film-makers to the war effort, preserving their stories as an important part of our national heritage.”

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Collection of rare photos of wartime film-making released for VE Day

The images, released by Historic England, also highlight the pioneering role of women in wartime photography.

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Hundred Heroines Museum 🏛️ @hundredheroines.org · May 10

#Photography #Opportunity 📢

Last call for Photo Oxford Open Call "Revealing Truth"

www.photooxford.org

PHOTO OXFORD

We will be updating the site with news of an ambitious programme of photographic exhibitions and events so please join our mailing list to be the first to know! In the meantime, our renowned Open Ca...

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Hundred Heroines Museum 🏛️ @hundredheroines.org · May 10

Join us with artist Ania Ready to talk about her book "I also fight Windmills" based on the life of Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska.
Tea and cake 🎂 Polish style today at 11:00

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Polish Heritage Day

Join us on Polish Heritage Day (Saturday 1o May) to celebrate the life of writer Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska (1872–1925)

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Hundred Heroines Museum 🏛️ @hundredheroines.org · May 9

Born #OTD 1908, 🇺🇸 #photographer Nancy Newhall
critic & writer, interested in conservation; collaborated with Ansel Adams & Edward Weston, supplying the text for their books of photographs. She was also the co-founder of Aperture Magazine

#WomenInPhotography 📷

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Nancy Newhall

Nancy Wynne Newhall was an American photography writer and curator, and the co-founder of Aperture Magazine.

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