Video Stories is a new initiative from RPS Women in Photography, inviting members to share their photography through moving image, sound, and storytelling. This growing collection brings together short films and slideshows that showcase individual photographic practices or tell personal and documentary-style stories using stills, video, voice, and music. Together, these works reflect the diversity, creativity, and lived experiences of women photographers, offering fresh and intimate ways to engage with image-making beyond the still frame..
We invite you to watch, listen, and take your time. These are stories told through images, shaped by lived experience, and shared with generosity.
✨ Thank you for supporting and celebrating women in photography.
Midlife by Natasha Bennett
This is a one video in a project that I am still working on about women and how they feel about their bodies. I have made three videos so far and aim to make a fourth. The videos use stills and audio as I interview the subjects. The subjects are all women who are different ages and face different issues. They are honest and unrehearsed voices.
This video ‘Midlife’ is an authentic voice speaking about real life. Do you have a similar experience or is someone you know, a sister, daughter, friend, partner, or girlfriend in midlife and finding it difficult, trying to find their way through the menopause in its many aspects?
How Do You Dance in a War Zone? by Maria Falconer FRPS
When people think of dance, they often imagine something rather poetic involving arabesques and pirouettes.
But this notion couldn’t be more at odds to the stark form of resistance presented by the Ukrainian dance community, where dancers prepare volunteer soldiers for combat and the military teach dancers how to fight.
The Heartbeat of Trees by Rosalind Lowry
A story of the women who worked the land, with sepia portraits of women attached to tree's the same age as they were when they began working the land or emigrating to another land. Each child, girl or woman is honoured with each tree.
Installed temporarily in forests in County Antrim, and Alaska. A story about surviving and ancestral honouring.
MOTHER by Lisa Jayne Cramer
My mother just turned 92 and has recently been diagnosed with Vascular Dementia. Moments of wonder are precious as she comes in and out of lucidity. The veil is silently reigning down upon us with great feeling of love and sorrow.
From my ongoing project, BEAUTIFUL AGE what we never see even though we are looking, I have included analogue stills with video to tell a story; this story of my mother's days residing with me. I am my mother's daughter, I am my mother's carer. Childless not by choice, I have finally been chosen.
This is a story where Love restores all reason.
Between The Walls and The Trees by Ruth Hanson ARPS
‘Between the Walls and the Trees’ is a film is about freedom. I made this film between the castle walls of my hometown and the trees and houses beside it, reflecting on my reclaimed feelings of safety and freedom here after relentless traumatic experiences. Walls, bars, trees, birds, and the pounding sound of a heartbeat are symbols of both my trauma and recovery. I include my own shadow as a self-portrait, to layer and explore my experience of personal storytelling through photography as a vital part of my recovery process.
The film was shot on a Lomokino camera using 35mm film, which I hand-developed, scanned and animated. Later, reflecting on the film, I wrote the words “stay, it is over, you are safe here”, and “the birds know how to be”.
Corn Husks Belper by Sarah Skinner
This is a short video I put together as a way to show a series of photos. I took the photographs on a route I'm very familiar with, it is the 'scenic' (but quite long) route home from town. It was a dull day and I wasn't thinking about taking photographs initially but I was caught by the ugly-beauty of a corn husk that lay there, bleached and dried, long after harvest. This appeared to be the only cob left but then I saw others, similar yet different, and really striking in their form.
At home I chose the sequence carefully and used a 'silvertone' filter to knock out the greenery of the surrounding plants and emphasise the structure of the husks.
I was also thinking of Dorothea Lange and that dust-bowl era of photography. The video evokes for me thoughts about ageing, death, beauty, the natural cycle and just how there is always beauty to be found on even the most mundane walks.
Layered Memories by Jane Robb
I travelled to Ghana, Senegal and Gambia in August 2025. I was inspired by a prompt to take videos of small moments of reflection - of which I had many while travelling. The piece tells a story of the journey of travel and memories, many of which are layered in time and recollection, where we may see parts of our lives through other parts of a journey. Together, they hopefully also add to a bigger story that can tell of more than just my own memories of travel.
Fair Winds and Following Seas by Sinead Le Blond
Through a blend of stills, video, and voice, Sinead shares a deeply personal and creative story — a beautiful reminder of how photography and film can express not just what we see, but who we are.
Icelandic Photography Expedition by Sue Wright
In 2018, I organised and led a photography journey to Iceland with an extraordinary group of people from Blesma – The Limbless Veterans.
For one unforgettable week, eight Blesma members set out to photograph Iceland’s dramatic landscapes — from vast open spaces to moments of quiet stillness. This was a group defined not by limitation, but by determination: two wheelchair users, two registered blind, three amputees, and a war widow — all pushing personal and creative boundaries together.
This experience was about far more than learning photography. It was about confidence, independence, resilience, and the shared joy of making images in challenging environments. It was about adapting, supporting one another, and proving that creativity and adventure are for everyone.
This is more than mindful photography — it’s about getting out there and doing it.
