IN SUPPORT OF FEMALE ARTISTS

STEPH WILSON

“Untitled”, France, 2019.

Based in London, UK, Steph Wilson is a photographer and artist whose work focuses on playing with and dismantling tropes of femininity.

Spanning fashion campaigns, editorial and fine art, she has shot for brands including Mugler, Simone Rocha and Nike, and publications such as Dazed, i-D and the British Journal of Photography.

In 2024, she won the National Portrait Gallery's prestigious Taylor Wessing Prize, for her portrait, 'Sonam', taken from her series Ideal Mother — which seeks to document unconventional and ‘imperfect’ examples of motherhood.

Check out Steph's feature The Art of Interrogating the Norm

KOURTNEY ROY

Self-portrait, Switzerland, 2008.

Kourtney Roy is a Canadian-born photographer and filmmaker whose work is underpinned by a dark sense of humour, and draws inspiration from the grotesque nature of seemingly placid settings and tensions simmering just beneath the surface.

Working across fine art photography and advertising, her clients include Dior, Louis Vuitton, Pernod Ricard and Volkswagen, as well as Vogue, Numéro, The Sunday Times, GQ, and Esquire.

She is the recipient of numerous prizes and grants.

Check out Kourtney's Talking Pictures

FELICITY INGRAM

Bombshell in Lisbon, from book Technophoria, 2023.

Felicity Ingram is a British photographer and director known for her raw, intimate approach to beauty and fashion imagery.

Her work includes campaigns for Hermès and Valentino, as well as covers for multiple Vogue publications. Represented by Management Artists with a career that bridges the worlds of beauty, fashion and cultural documentary,

Felicity continues to push creative boundaries, producing work that resonates with audiences around the globe.

Check out Felicity's Talking Pictures

NICOLA COLLINS

MOM, Malibu, 2017.

Nicola Collins is an award winning British photographer and film director with a love for raw storytelling. 

Having kept a camera close since teenagehood, she wrote, directed and shot her first feature ‘The End’ to critical acclaim, revealing the bloody history and confessions of the cockney gangster and continues to becommissioned by music and fashion platforms to shoot the likes of Ryan Gosling, Adele and Miley Cyrus.

Nicola lives on the coast with her identical twin sister and is an unapologetic film nerd.

Check out Nicola's Talking Pictures

ELENA RENDINA

Charley, London, 2023.

Elena Rendina is a visual artist and creative director working in the fields of photography, performance art and animation. With a background in fashion photography, she creates highly stylised and intimate worlds.

Sumptuous interiors are populated with props and set designs hand-made by the artist, who humorously subverts and reimagines materials associated with homemaking. Kitchen tools, bedcovers and tablecloths escape their traditional confines and find new worth as valuable tools of creative expression.

Check out Elena's Talking Pictures

MADELEINE HORDINSKI

Ohio River, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2022.

Madeleine Hordinski is a Cincinnati-based photographer who works throughout the Midwest.

A regular contributor to The New York Times and The Washington Post, her photographs have also appeared in National Geographic, The Guardian, NPR, Los Angeles Times, and more. Madeleine is also a faculty member at the University of Cincinnati’s School of Design, where she teaches photography.

Check out Madeleine's Talking Pictures