Before Gerda Taro became the first woman photojournalist to die while covering a war on the front lines, she worked with her lover Endre Friedmann. Together they collaborated on work attributed to “Robert Capa,” an American persona intended to protect European Jewish artists from increasing political tensions on the continent in the 1930s
Sonia Boyce became the first woman of African descent to represent the U.K. at the Venice Biennale in 2022, the year she turned 60.
Canadian journalist, novelist, mountaineer, botanist, photographer and lecturer
1800s Micmac artist and artist’s model
South African documentary photographer who captures the traces of violence, displacement and struggle in a landscape.
South African artist
Kewpie was a hairdresser and iconic queer figure in South Africa.
South African sculptor, photographer and painter
Austrian journalist, writer, editor, photographer and novelist
English-South African artist and activist