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Visitor Information: The RPS Gallery and coffee shop will be closed on Saturday 7 December

4569096 Sofia Conti The False Accusation
CREDIT: Sofia Conti

Women In Photography

These are our stories

Dancing for Joy – Luskentyre Beach, Isle of Harris © Jane Murray
CREDIT: Dancing for Joy © Jane Murray
Jane Murray
Boyhood Summers in the Outer Hebrides

Created over several years, a mother’s testament to the importance of preserving the essence of childhood, and the simple pleasures of island life off the north-west coast of Scotland.

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CREDIT: Manhattan Skyline © Linda Wride
Linda Wride ARPS
‘Archiometry’

Architecture and Geometry: Celebrating shapes, pattern and form in the built environment

If you’re a wildlife, landscape or people photographer, you may wonder why anyone would want to photograph buildings and the wider built environment. Let me take you on a short photographic journey to explain why it appeals to me. 

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Trish Crawford
CREDIT: Trish Crawford
Trish Crawford ARPS
I Am (Not) Who I Used to Be 

Women in mid-life are often overlooked, yet their lives are rich with experience, creativity, capacity, and accomplishment. This portraiture project finds a group of women in Canada becoming more and more themselves with time.

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Just Married, featuring Maggie Victoria and Frank’s engagement photos © Rachel Nixon
CREDIT: Rachel Nixon
Rachel Nixon
The Garden of Maggie Victoria

Combining old family photos with new work to revive the story of a long-forgotten great-grandmother and her ordinary, extraordinary life. By Rachel Nixon

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Love Is A Life Story image by Ruth Toda-Nation
CREDIT: Ruth Toda-Nation
Ruth Toda-Nation
Love is a Life Story: Friendship in the Face of Covid

After the pandemic hit, Ruth Toda-Nation used her camera to document the enduring friendship between her father, John, and his neighbour, Mary. Ruth movingly chronicled everyday life and challenges for older people navigating often confusing lockdown regulations. The resulting work, Love is a Life Story, was a winner in the RPS Documentary Project Awards, and is part of a touring exhibition starting in May 2024.

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Bathing by Tower Bridge © Julia Fullerton-Batten
CREDIT:  Julia Fullerton-Batten
Julia Fullerton-Batten
The Art of the Storyteller

An interview with Julia Fullerton-Batten by Teri Walker.  Julia Fullerton-Batten is a fine-art photographer renowned for her highly cinematic visual storytelling. Her large-scale projects are based around specific themes. Each image in the project embellishes her subject matter in a series of thought-provoking narrative stories using staged tableaux and sophisticated lighting techniques.

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 Winner Under 18 The Beauty Of Soap Bubbles By Kelly Zhang
CREDIT: Kelly Zhang
Kelly Zhang
How to do Bubble Photography

Kelly Zhang is a young photographer based in New York, USA, specialising in abstract macro photography. Inspired by the scientific phenomena behind soap bubbles, Kelly began photographing them in 2022. Kelly has received several awards for her work, including first place in the 2022 American Association of Physics Teachers High School Physics Photo Contest and Honourable Mention in the 19th Julia Margaret Cameron Award. She shares her creative process for photographing soap bubbles

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Barrie, Part Time Farm Worker, Howfen Portraits Series (C) Marge Bradshaw Photography
CREDIT: Marge Bradshaw
Marge Bradshaw
Developing a second career as a photographer and socially engaged artist

Marge Bradshaw is a socially engaged documentary and portrait photographer interested in people, place, and heritage. She uses a mixture of photography and ethnographic research to share the stories of participants, often giving a platform for voices in communities who are not usually heard. She also works commercially as a cultural events photographer, brand photographer and family documentary photographer.

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Finding The Strength To Fly
CREDIT: Honey J Walker, ARPS
Honey J Walker ARPS
Photography + Women = Alchemy

Honey J Walker, ARPS is a London based abstract and aerial photographer, exploring colour, metaphor and emotional intelligence throughout her work. Her process involves in-camera multiple exposure and hand-finishing with encaustic or gold leaf. 

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Gigi Chung Cocoontower
CREDIT: Gigi Chung
Gigi Chung
Tokyo Hustle

Gigi Chung is a California-based fine art photographer specialising in abstract architecture. She distills complex scenes into bold sculptural forms, emphasising lines, shapes, and contrast with the conscious inclusion of aesthetically pleasing elements. She contributes to Tagree, Jaamzin, and Medium Format Magazine.

 

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Heybesee A1
CREDIT: Alice Chapman
Alice Chapman
Hey! Be. See  

When I was a kid, we had a frieze on the playroom wall; Margaret Tempest’s An ABC for You and Me. We had the book too; a perfect little square of pictures. Each showed a watercolour animal with an object that began with the same letter as their name. There’s something so magical in childhood about anthropomorphic characters and I spent hours looking at the pictures.

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RPS Chandelier From Possession
CREDIT: Julie Derbyshire
Julie Derbyshire
An interview with Julie Derbyshire.

I have enjoyed taking photographs since childhood, and my interest has continued for a long time alongside other career paths. About ten years ago, I decided to focus on my passion for photography, and I studied for a BA and an MA.

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Frankie Mcallister
CREDIT: Frankie Mcallister
Frankie McAllister
An interview with Frankie McAllister.

"I think the main thing (and the hardest thing) is to work out what it is you are really trying to say or do with your work, what your direction is. Once you have done that, then stand by it, be confident about it."

 

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Cold Start
CREDIT: Jayne Odell
Jayne Odell
An interview with Jayne Odell.

"Take photographs that you want to take. Develop your style. Listen to others and take on board constructive comments but don’t let negatives influence your work."

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Gigi Chung, Seoul
CREDIT: Gigi Chung, Seoul
Gigi Chung
Seoul Architecture: Right Place Right Time

Gigi Chung is a California-based fine-art photographer specialising in abstract architecture. She distills complex scenes into bold sculptural forms; emphasising lines, shapes and contrast with conscious inclusion of aesthetically pleasing elements. 

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Give us Features, not Flowers by Helene Jelenc and Sandra Potisek
CREDIT: H Jelenc and S Potisek
Helene Jelenc and Sandra Potisek
Give us Features, not Flowers

Examining gender bias in the photography industry and digital landscape.  Women have contributed as much to the history of photography as men, but many people probably struggle to name a few.

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 Documentary Family Photography: art of the ordinary by Alice Chapman
CREDIT: Alice Chapman
Alice Chapman
Documentary Family Photography: art of the ordinary

I still remember the moment years ago, when I realised documentary family photography was a “thing” . I’d been photographing families for a few years and had been drawn to outtakes or behind the scenes style images.

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