Madame Yevonde was an English photographer born on the 5th January 1893 in Streatham, South London. Educated in liberal schools in the UK, France and Belgium, she joined the suffragette movement in 1910. Upon leaving school, she returned to the family home in Bromley, Kent and became active in suffragette activities, but realising that she was [...]
When I first moved to London st the age of 13, I was a little terrified. Everything was new, the city was big, loud with too many people that spoke a language that I barely understood. As the days and the years went buy, I grew to know it and love it. I made life [...]
Germaine Krull (29 November 1897 – 31 July 1985), was a great modernist photographer, activist, inveterate traveller and hotelier Germaine Krull. Germaine was born born in Wilda-Poznań, East Prussia 29 November 1897. It was then in Germany and is now Poznań, Poland. Her nationality has been categorised as German, Polish, French, and Dutch, but [...]
The American photographer and artist Adelaide Hanscom Leeson was born 25 November 1875. Adelaide began her career in the “traditional arts” and in the 1890s studied painting with local artists and design at the University of California. Between 1892 and 1900 she contributed her still lifes in pastel, crayon, oil and watercolours to the exhibits [...]
Gisèle Freund was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist, born in Schöneberg District, Berlin famous for her documentary photography and portraits of writers and artists. In 1931, Freund studied sociology and art history at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Breisgau, Germany. From 1932-33 she studied at the Institute for Social, Sciences, University of Frankfurt under Theodor W. Adorno, [...]
EllenAuerbach, née Rosenberg, was born 20 May 1906, in Karlsruhe, to a Jewish family. She was a sculpture student in Karlsruhe, Germany, when she was given her first camera in 1928. In 1929, she moved to Berlin to study photography and met the brilliant photographer Grete Stern. The two became close friends for life; they [...]
Lately I've been struggling to answer this question lately. They are many reasons as to why. I've always praised myself on being self motivated but lately my inspiration along with my motivation have simply dwindled. Since then, I've been asking myself why am I creative? I've never thought of myself as a creative before I [...]
