List of British women photographers

A

• Sarah Angelina Acland, an amateur photographer who pioneered colour in Gibraltar in 1903 and 1904 and later in Madeira
• Nudrat Afza, Bradford-based documentary photographer
• Heather Angel, nature photographer
• Olivia Arthur, documentary photographer
• Anna Atkins, a botanist, the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images

  B

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

  C

• Juno Calypso, photographer who makes self-portraits
• Evelyn Cameron, see United States
• Julia Margaret Cameron, notable early work, closely cropped portraits of celebrities, 800 of her works owned by the Royal Photographic Society
• Natasha Caruana
• Araminta de Clermont, artistic photographer
• Hannah Collins, contemporary artist, filmmaker, photographer
• Joan Craven, photographer
• Elaine Constantine, photographer, filmmaker
• Care Johnson, photographer, blogger, makeup artist

  D

• Siân Davey
• Corinne Day, fashion and documentary photographer
• Venetia Dearden, photographer, filmmaker
• Susan Derges, photographic artist, camera-less photography
• Eileen Olive Deste, see New Zealand
• Mary Dillwyn, the earliest female photographer in Wales
• Zoë Dominic, dance and theatre photographer

  E

• Olive Edis, portraits and early autochromes, diascope viewer
• Amanda Eliasch, photographer, artist, filmmaker

  F

• Florence Farmborough, writer, photographer, nurse
• Candice Farmer, underwater fashion photographer
• Mary Georgina Filmer, early proponent of photomontage
• Mary Fitzpatrick, known for her work on spaces abandoned after conflict
• Anna Fox, office life in London, "Made in" series on Milton Keynes, Kansas, Gothenburg and Florence
• Constance Fox Talbot, wife of Henry Fox Talbot, experimented with photography as early as 1839
• Catriona Fraser, photographer and art dealer
• Melanie Friend, photographer, educator
• Jill Furmanovsky specialises in documenting rock musicians.

  G

• Yishay Garbasz, contemporary artist, photographer
• Paula Rae Gibson, art photography
• Fay Godwin, landscape photographer

  H

• Pamela Hanson, fashion photographer
• Eleanor Hardwick, contemporary artist, photographer, curator
• Alice Seeley Harris, missionary, documentary photographer
• Clementina Hawarden, portrait photographer in the 1860s, predating Julia Margaret Cameron
• Kate Holt, Zimbabwe-born British photojournalist
• Alice Hughes, leading London portrait photographer specialising in images of fashionable women and children
• Alyson Hunter, see New Zealand

  J

• Care Johnson, photographer, retoucher, public speaker
• Andrea Jones, garden photographer
• Elsbeth Juda, fashion photographer

  K

• Ann Kelley, children's writer, poet, photographer

  L

• Etheldreda Laing, early autochrome photographs

  M

• Neeta Madahar, artistic photographer specialising in nature, birds and flora
• Jessie Mann, early Scottish photographer, assistant of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson
• Georgina Masson, photographer, non-fiction writer
• Chloe Dewe Mathews, documentary photographer
• Mary McCartney, ballet dancers, Spice Girls
• Wendy McMurdo, exploring the relationship between technology and identity
• Lotte Meitner-Graf, portrait photographer in Vienna until 1937 when she came to London, Great Britain
• Margaret Mitchell, Scottish portrait and documentary photographer
• Augusta Mostyn, philanthropist, artist, photographer
• Tish Murtha, documentary photographer

  N

• Caroline Emily Nevill, early photographer and pioneering member of the Photographic Exchange Club

  P

• Laura Pannack, social documentaries and portraits
• Jill Posener, lesbian photographer, playwright

  Q

• Terri Quaye, musician, ethnographic photographer

  R

• Franki Raffles, social documentary photographer
• Suze Randall, erotic photographer
• Sophy Rickett, installation artist and photographer
• Grace Robertson, photojournalist contributing to Picture Post and Life in the 1950s
• Ellen Rogers, portrait and fashion photographer
• Mary Rosse, began experimenting with photography in 1842

  S

• Jane Martha St. John, 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, wildlife photographer
• Pepita Seth, known for her photographs of elephants
• Pennie Smith, black-and-white portraits, rock groups
• Sally Soames, newspaper photographer
• Jo Spence, known for her self-portraits depicting her fight against cancer
• Doreen Spooner, first female photographer on Fleet Street
• Hannah Starkey, staged settings of women in city environments
• Philippa Starkey, landscape photographer
• Clare Strand, conceptual photographer
• Maud Sulter, fine artist, photographer, writer and curator

  T

• Mitra Tabrizian, professor of photography at the University of Westminster
• Sam Taylor-Wood, art photography, portraits
• Anya Teixeira, founded the Creative Photo Group
• Eveleen Tennant, photographer, family and visitors
• Alys Tomlinson
• Abbie Trayler-Smith, documentary and portrait photographer
• Amelia Troubridge, portrait, documentary photographer
• Edith Tudor-Hart, photographer and ERussian spy
• Emma Turner, pioneering bird photographer

  V

• Vivienne, photographer, singer, writer

  W

• Agnes Warburg, influential early colour photographer
• Gillian Wearing, conceptual artist also working with photography, video and installations
• Jane Wigley, early photographer opening studios in Newcastle and London in the mid-1840s
• Val Wilmer, writer-photographer specialising in jazz, gospel, blues, and British African-Caribbean music and culture
• Vanessa Winship, portraiture and landscapes, particularly in Turkey, Georgia and the US
• Olivia Wyndham, society photographer

  Y

• Catherine Yass, bright colour, images often a combination of the positive and negative, subjects ranging from toilets to empty cinemas and Bollywood stars
• Madame Yevonde, pioneered colour in portrait photography, including a series of guests at a party dressed as Roman and Greek gods and goddesses