Following up on my guide to “10 photographers you should follow in 2023 working in Black and White” and “10 photographers you should follow in 2023 working in color”, below is a list of 10 of the best female photographers you should follow in 2023.
A personal list of some of my favorite female photographers, in no particular order.
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Judith Joy Ross
Judith Joy Ross (1946) is an American portrait photographer. Her books include Contemporaries (1995), Portraits (1996), Portraits of the Hazleton Public Schools (2006) and Protest the War (2007), "exploring such themes as the innocence of youth, the faces of political power, and the emotional toll of war".
Ross was born in Hazleton, Pennsylvania in 1946. She graduated from the Moore College of Art in 1968 and earned a master's degree in photography in 1970 from the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, where she studied with Aaron Siskind.
Kristine Potter
Kristine Potter (1977) is an artist based in Nashville, Tennessee, whose work explores masculine archetypes, the American landscape, and cultural tendencies toward mythologizing the past. Her first monograph Manifest was published by TBW Books in 2018. Potter was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018 and was awarded the Grand Prix Image Vevey for 2019-2020.
Potter’s work is in numerous public and private collections including that of: The Georgia Museum of Art, 601 Artspace, Swiss Camera Museum, and Foundation Vevey. Potter is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Middle Tennessee State University.
Barbara Bosworth
Barbara Bosworth (1953) is a photographer whose large-format images explore both overt and subtle relationships between humans and the rest of the natural world. Whether chronicling the efforts of hunters or bird banders or evoking the seasonal changes that transform mountains and meadows, Bosworth’s caring attention to the world around her results in images that similarly inspire viewers to look closely.
Bosworth grew up in Novelty, Ohio. She currently lives in Massachusetts, where she is a professor emeritus of photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. Over her long career, Bosworth has photographed in both black and white and color. Her single images display a generous attention to small facts, while her large-scale triptychs reveal a panoramic awareness, one that lets viewers glimpse relationships between frames across a wide field. While all of Bosworth’s projects remind viewers not only that we shape the rest of nature but that it also shapes us.
Mimi Plumb
Mimi Plumb (1953), also known as Mimi Plumb-Chambers, is an American photographer and educator, living in Berkeley, California. Plumb is part of a long tradition of socially engaged documentary photographers concerned with California. She has published three books, Landfall (2018), The White Sky (2020), and The Golden City (2021).
Andrea Modica
Andrea Modica (1960) was born in New York City and lives in Philadelphia, where she works as a photographer and teaches at Drexel University. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fulbright Scholar and the recipient of a Knight Award.
Her photographs have been featured in many magazines, including the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Newsweek and American Photo.
Alessandra Sanguinetti
Alessandra Sanguinetti (1968) was born in New York, lived in Argentina from 1970 to 2003 and is currently based in New York. An ICP graduate, she began a series of works in 1999 about the relationship between two nine-year-old cousins, Belinda and Guille, who live on a farm outside of Buenos Aries. Sanguinetti photographed them for ten years, charting their evolution from girls to young women. The girls collaborated with Sanguinetti on the series, The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their Dreams, to construct images that evoke the fantasies and fears that accompany the physical and psychological transition from childhood to adulthood. The photographs use costumes and props, as well as references to art and literature, to explore the diffuse boundary between fantasy and reality. As the girls age, the photographs become more meditative as they start exploring their adult lives.
Adrianna Ault
Adrianna Ault (1972) is an American photographer raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Adrianna studied photography from a very early age. She lived and worked in New York City for seventeen years and has spent her life working in the realm of photography, whether commercial or artistically driven.
In 2017, she collaborated with Tim Carpenter, Raymond Meeks, and Brad Zellar on Township, a photobook centered around the auction of her family farm in central Ohio. In 2018, Township was nominated for the distinguished Kassel Fotobook Award.
Adrianna Ault holds an MFA from Hartford International Limited-Residency Photography School. She works in her studio in the Hudson Valley of New York. In addition to making work for publication, she has taught at colleges and workshops.
Adrianna currently working on a book to be published with VOID, coming out in early 2023.
Jenia Fridlyand
Jenia Fridlyand (1975) is a photographer and educator based in New York City and the Hudson Valley. Her photographs and books have been exhibited in the United States and abroad. The self-published edition of Fridlyand’s book "Entrance to Our Valley" was shortlisted for the Paris Photo - Aperture First Photobook Award 2017, and trade editions were published by TIS Books in 2019 and 2020. Her current long-term project is based in Cuba. She is represented by Galerie Wouter van Leuween, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Katherine Turczan
Photographer Katherine Turczan’s work explores post communist life through portraiture and landscape. Her work has been exhibited and collected by major museums around the world. Including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Fulbright and the Bush Foundation among others. Katherine has taught at MCAD since 1995. She received her BFA from Cooper Union and her MFA from Yale University.
Kate Ovaska
Kate Ovaska is a photographer living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Her photographs and light installations consider adoption, family structures, and intimate relationships. She received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an MFA from Columbia University. Her awards include a Fulbright Scholarship to Germany, the CAA Professional Development Grant, and the Pioneer Works Visual Art Residency.
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Kim
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