List of British women photographers

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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  • Lisa Barnard (born 1967), documentary photographer, political artist, and senior lecturer on documentary photography at University of South Wales
  • Kate Barry (1967–2013), fashion photographer
  • Emma Barton (1872–1938), portrait photographer, autochromes, awarded the Royal Photographic Society Medal in 1903
  • Rebecca Lilith Bathory (born 1982), also known as Rebecca Litchfield
  • Mabel Bent (1847–1929), pioneer travel photographer, working in the Eastern Mediterranean, southern Africa and the Arabian peninsular
  • Zarina Bhimji (born 1963), photographer of the effects of the expulsion of Asians from Uganda and other migration issues
  • Dorothy Bohm (born 1924), originally from Königsberg, initially portraits, later street photography, from 1985 in colour
  • Gemma Booth (active since 2009), fashion photographer
  • Jane Bown (1925–2014), portrait photographer, also worked for The Observer
  • Sonia Boyce (born 1962), contemporary artist, photographer, educator
  • Sarah Anne Bright (1793–1866), artist, photographer, produced the earliest surviving photographic images taken by a woman
  • Zana Briski (born 1966), documentary, especially insects
  • Christina Broom (1862–1939), said to be Britain's first female press photographer
  • Zoë Buckman (born 1985), multi-media artist, photographer
  • Cindy Buxton (born 1950), wildlife photographer, filmmaker

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  • Olive Edis (1876–1955), portraits and early autochromes, diascope viewer
  • Amanda Eliasch (active since 1999), photographer, artist, filmmaker

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  • Pamela Hanson (active since 2001), fashion photographer
  • Eleanor Hardwick (born 1993), contemporary artist, photographer, curator
  • Alice Seeley Harris (1870–1970), missionary, documentary photographer
  • Clementina Hawarden (1822–1865), portrait photographer in the 1860s, predating Julia Margaret Cameron
  • Kate Holt (born 1972), Zimbabwe-born British photojournalist
  • Alice Hughes (1857–1939), leading London portrait photographer specialising in images of fashionable women and children
  • Alyson Hunter (born 1948), see New Zealand

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  • Ann Kelley (born 1941), children's writer, poet, 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
  • Margaret Mitchell (born 1968), Scottish portrait and documentary photographer
  • 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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  • 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
  • Jo Metson Scott
  • Philippa Scott (1918–2010), wildlife photographer
  • Pepita Seth (active since 2000s), known for her photographs of elephants
  • Pennie Smith (born c. 1949), black-and-white portraits, rock groups
  • Sally Soames (1937–2019), newspaper photographer
  • Jo Spence (1934–1992), known for her self-portraits depicting her fight against cancer
  • Doreen Spooner (1928–2019), first female photographer on Fleet Street
  • Hannah Starkey (born 1971), staged settings of women in city environments
  • Philippa Starkey (born 1978), landscape photographer
  • Clare Strand (born 1973), conceptual photographer
  • Maud Sulter (1960–2008), fine artist, photographer, writer and curator

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  • Vivienne (1889–1982), photographer, singer, writer

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  • 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
  • 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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