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List of British women photographers

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This is a list of women photographers who were born in the United Kingdom or whose works are closely associated with that country.

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  • 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

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  • 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
  • Georgina Masson (1912–1980), photographer, non-fiction writer
  • Chloe Dewe Mathews (born 1982), 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
  • Kirsty Mitchell] (born 1976), photographer of staged scences
  • 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
  • Tish Murtha (1956–2013), documentary photographer

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  • Caroline Emily Nevill (1829–1827), early photographer and pioneering member of the Photographic Exchange Club

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

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  • Florence Vandamm (1883–1966), photographer of Broadway productions
  • Vivienne (1889–1982), photographer, singer, writer

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  • 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
  • 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

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  • 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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References

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