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
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