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Women landscape photographers

January 31, 2022

If you do an online search for “women landscape photographers” you have to scroll for pages and pages before you find any photography that goes deeper than the usual god’s-eye view “epic” wilderness shots. There are some great images but they are all of a type, and you’d be forgiven for thinking this is the only way to approach landscape photography. I think the lists that make it onto the first pages of Google like this are curated by people who want eye-catching, saturated images to catch people’s views and stop us scrolling. The algorithm works against quieter photography, or darker, or desaturated, or anything that needs us to pay a tiny bit more attention.

I’ve been building a list of women landscape photographers I stumble across who are doing things either a bit differently or with more emotional engagement than you usually find, and it’s time to share.

I hope you will forgive the repetition, but if I want this list to make it anywhere near the first page of Google then it needs to say women landscape photographers a lot.

I’ve pigeonholed everyone here with the moniker “landscape photographer” just because that’s how people search online. However, many would not describe themselves as a landscape photographer; nonetheless the images I’ve highlighted are of the land. I want to share the idea that there are many, many different ways to photograph the land; not just the famous idealised tourist gaze.

My favourite women landscape photographers

Rachel Poulton

Corinne Vionnet

Yan Wang Preston

Helen Sear

Isabelle Boutriau

Frances Scott

Janelle Lynch

Awoiska van der Molen


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