Women In Photography International Establishes List of Top 100 Distinguished Women Photographers
August 31, 2008

Women In Photography International continues its tradition by establishing a list of the top 100 Distinguished Women Photographers for 2008. Included on the list are photography's classics, Lillian Bassman, Jodi Cobb, Anne Geddes, Graciela Iturbide, Helen Levitt, Sally Mann and Cindy Sherman.

Starting in 2006, to celebrate WIPI’s 25th Anniversary, Women In Photography International (www.WIPI.org) began the process of researching and culling the names of working women photographers worldwide. After two years, the finalized list of the Top 100 female Photographers was completed in August 2008, and serves as the 25th Anniversary Addendum to WIPI’s Distinguished Photographer’s Award, first presented to Eve Arnold in 1981.

Selecting the top 100 women photographers involved Googling each of the candidates nominated with attention focused on the artist’s body of work, history of exhibition, biographies, portfolios, career longevity, publications, and social impact. The selection acknowledges women starting at the earliest stages of their career to working photographers with twenty-five or more years of history.

A variety of resource materials were used to assemble the list, most notably Dr. Naomi Rosenblum's 1994 groundbreaking volume, 'A History of Women Photographers', and Photo Historian, Peter E. Palmquist’s, 2001 list of women photographers, donated to WIPI’s online resource center. The Palmquist Collection of Western American and Women's Photography is housed at Yale University's Beinecke Library. Additional support and consultation was provided by photographers, curators, educators, museums, educational foundations, photographic organizations, and gallery owners worldwide.

Women In Photography International’s Top 100 Distinguished Photographers list honors the accomplishments of dedicated working women photographers around the globe. Each of the nominees, and the selected finalists has contributed uniquely to the field of the visual arts. Whether self-taught or formally educated, each of these women were selected for their dedication, artistry, and for creating a body of work that has touched our lives.

From the NOMINATED List below 100 photographers were chosen
WIPI 2008 COLLECTION Distinguished Photographers

Nominated:

Abrams, Susan / USA
Abramson, Beverly / CANADA
Aguilar, Laura / USA
Alaéz, Ana Laura / SPAIN ( Emerging 5-15 years )
Alberthal, Kari / USA
Alford, Marya / USA
Almeida, Monica / USA
Almond Joan / USA
Aloma, Lily E / USA
Alt, Jane Fulton, / USA ( Established 15-25 years )
Andujar, Claudia / BRAZIL
Arbus, Amy / USA  ( Established 15-25 years )
Aridjis, Patricia / MEXICO  ( Emerging 5-15 years )
Arthur, Cherise / USA
Ashburn, Kristen / USA
Atashi, Mehraneh / IRAN
Arvelo, Mariliana / VENEUELA ( Debutante 1-5 years )
Autio, Narelle Adelaide / AUSTEALIA ( Emerging 5-15 years )
Baaqil, Susan / SAUDI ARABIA
Bakker, Rene / NETHERLANDS
Baram, Nadia /MEXICO
Barney, Tina / USA
Barrow, Reenie / USA
Barth, Uta / USA
Bartlett, Mary A / USA
Bartone, Joanne / USA
Bassman, Lillian / USA  ( Distinguished 25 + )
Battaglia, Letzia / ITALY ( Distinguished 25 + )
Bauknight, Catherine / USA  
Beasley, Juliana / USA
BeBe, Shahla / USA
Becher, Hilla / GERMANY
Becker, Arlene / USA
Bednar, Kymberly Paige / USA
Benedicto, Nair / BRAZIL
Bennett, Edna; / USA
Bensemra, Zohra / ALGERIA ( Established 15-25 years )
Berman, Nina / USA ( Established 15-25 years )
Berry, Alexia / USA / FRANCE
Bhimji, Zarina / UK / GERMANY ( Established 15-25 years )
Bigbee, Ivy / USA
Biren, Joan E. / USA
Birrell, Ellen / USA
Bishop, Carol / USA
Bisilliat, Maureen / SWITZERLAND
Bloomfield, Lisa / USA
Bochkova, Julia Milner / RUSSIA  ( Debutante 1-5 years )
Bohm, Dorothy / UK
Bolte, Rebecca (Vex) / USA
Bones, Sarah S. / USA
Bordnick, Barbara / USA  ( Distinguished 25 + )
Bown, Jane / UK ( Distinguished 25 + )
Boyd, Pattie / UK
Bracci, Judy Dion / USA
Braut, Marija / CROATIA
Bravo, Marta Maria Pérez / CUBA ( Distinguished 25 + )
Bravo, Tania / USA
Briceño, Patricia Martine / VENEZUELA
Bridges, Marilyn / USA
Bright, Shiela Pree / USA
Brimberg, Sisse / USA  ( Distinguished 25 + )
Brogden, Penny / USA
Brooke, Kaycyila / USA
Bronstein, Paula / THAILAND
Brown, Ellie / USA
Brown, Jane ( Distinguished 25 + )
Bruce, Andrea / USA
Brunner, Bianca / UK  ( Emerging 5-15 years )
Bubelytova, Violeta / RUSSIA
Bubley, Esther / USA
Burgoyne, Christine / USA
Burnstein, Susan  / USA  ( Debutante 1-5 years )
Byer, Renée C. / USA  ( Established 15-25 years )
Cade, Cathy / USA
Calzatti, Natasha / USA
Calle, Sophie / FRANCE
Callighan, Donna / USA
Callis, Jo Ann / USA
Calvo, Marina Edith / ITALY
Carey, Karen / USA
Carr, Kathleen Honaunau / Hawaii
Casas, Ana / SPAIN
Casdin-Silver, Harriet / USA
Casjens, Laurel  /USA
Catiere, Alexandra / USA
Caulfield, Patricia / USA
Chamlee, Paula / USA
Chebukova, Ann / RUSSIA
Cherry, Vivian / USA
Christina Fernandez / USA
Chwatshky, Ann /USA
Cleghorn, Kate / USA
Clendaniel, Nancy / USA ( Distinguished 25 + )
Cobb, Jodi / USA ( Distinguished 25 + )
Cohen, Lynne / USA
Conant, Tara / USA
Connor, Anne M. / USA
Connor, Linda / USA
Corinne, Tee A. / USA
Corona, Livia / Mexico / USA
Cortes, Camila Chaves / COLUMBIA
Cowin, Eileen / USA  ( Distinguished 25 + )
Danker, Deborah  / USA
Darakjy, Jacqueline / USA
Darbois, Dominique / FRANCE
Davidson, Sarah / UK
de la Loza, Sandra / USA
de Viguerie, Véronique / FRANCE  ( Debutante 1-5 years )
Dean, Julia / USA ( Distinguished 25 + )
Demulder, Francoise ( FRANCE )
DeVecchis, Rita Gaudet / USA
Dew Annette “Nettie” / AUSTRALIA
Dew, Gwen / USA
Dickey, Alverta Lyn / USA
Dijkstra, Rineke / NETHERLANDS ( Established 15-25 years )
Diriwaechter, Diana / USA
Dooley, Joan / USA
Dorfman, Elsa / USA
Dougier, Estelle / FRANCE
Dragon, Carol / USA
Drobis, Rebecca / USA
Dropplet, Suzanne / FRANCE
Duboise, Dominique  / FRANCE
Dufka, Corinne / USA
Dugan, Michele / USA
Dunville, Rachael / USA
Edmonds, Angela / UK
Edwards, Beth Yarnelle / USA
Eleta, Sandra / PANAMA
Enfield, Jill / USA
Entwistle, Florence Mellish / UK
Esipovich, Alla / RUSSIA ( Debutante 1-5 years )
Ess, Barbara / USA ( Distinguished 25 + )
Essaydi, Lalla / USA / MOROCCO  ( Emerging 5-15 years )
Evans, Margaret P/ USA
Ewald, Wendy Taylor / USA
Facio, Sara / ARGENTINA
Ferguson, Jessica / USA
Ferrato, Donna / USA ( Established 15-25 years )
Ferro, Jean / USA  ( Distinguished 25 + )
Fertik, Irene / USA ( Distinguished 25 + )
Fiscu, Gabriela / USA
Fisher, Rose-Lynn / USA
Fiskin , Judy / USA
Flack, Stephanie / USA
Flamer, Bonnie / USA
Fonde, Carol /USA
Forman, Fran / USA
Forsberg, Rhonda / USA
Fox, Flo / USA
Franck, Martine / FRANCE ( Distinguished 25 + )
Freedman, Jill / USA
Freund, Gisele / FRANCE
Fukova, Eva /CZECHSLOVAKIA
Fulton Alt, Jane / USA
Gauber, Carole / USA
Gabriele, Lauren  / USA
Gall, Sally / USA
Gamper, Gisela / USA  
Gans, Lydia / USA
Garber, Helen K. / USA
Garber, Helen Los Angeles / USA
Garcia, Kattia / CUBA  ( Established 15-25 years )
Garcia, Robin Parker / USA
Garduno, Flor / MEXICO
Garik, Alice / USA
Garnett, Lila / USA
Garoutte, Claire / USA ( Established 15-25 years )
Geddes, Anne / AUSTRALIA ( Distinguished 25 + )
Geesaman. Lynn / USA
Gelles, Judy / USA
Gerideau-Squires, Wilda / USA
Ghadirian, Shadi / IRAN ( Debutante 1-5 years )
Gianella, Gabrielle / USA
Gianturco, Paola / USA
Gill, Gauri / INDIA ( Emerging 5-15 years )
Glickman, Judy Ellis / USA ( Distinguished 25 + )
Godwin, Fay / UK
Golden, Gloria / USA
Golden, Judith / USA
Goldin, Nan / USA  ( Distinguished 25 + )
Goldsmith, Lynn / USA  ( Distinguished 25 + )
Goodman, Rosey / CANADA
Tipper Gore / USA
Gorelick Alyssa / USA
Grant, Susan K. / USA
Greenblat, Cathy / FRANCE
Greenfield, Lauren / USA ( Emerging 5-15 years )
Greenfield, Lois / USA
Griffin, Ginny /USA
Griffiths Belt, Annie / USA ( Distinguished 25 + )
Grobet, Lourdes / MEXICO
Groover, Jan / USA
Gruber, Ruth / USA
Guadarrama, Claudia / MEXICO ( Emerging 5-15 years )
Guild, Carolyn / USA
Guzy, Carol / USA ( Established 15-25 years )  
Gwen, Cat, / USA
Hafsteinsson, Sigurjon Baldur / ICELAND
Hahn, Betty / USA
Halek, Judith Elaine / USA
Hall, Catherine / USA ( Debutante 1-5 years )
Hamilton, Jane Eaton / CANADA
Hammond, Linda Dawn / CANADA
Hamon, Deborah / USA
Hansen, Gitte Sofie / DENMARK
Harlan, Helen / USA
Harper, Paola / AUSTRALIA
Harris, Pamela / CANADA
Hasbun, Muriel H. / USA
Hatch, Connie / USA
Hawn, Gray / USA
Helg, Beatrice / GERMANY
Hennessey Botkin, Liza / USA
Henry, Carol / USA
Hewlett, Pearl / USA
Heyman, Abigail / USA
Hilmer, Lucy   /USA
Himmel, Lizzie / USA ( Established 15-25 years )
Hoebler, Ditta Baron / USA
Höfer, Candida / GERMANY( Distinguished 25 + )
Hofer, Evelyn  / GERMANY
Hofkin, Ann Ginsburgh / USA
Hotchkiss, Rachel / UK
Hrudka, Cheryl / USA
Imai, Hisae / JAPAN
Imboden, Connie / USA  ( Established 15-25 years )
Ishiuchi, Miyako / JAPAN  ( Distinguished 25 + )
Iturbide, Graciela / MEXICO ( Distinguished 25 + )
Jacobi, Kathryn / USA
Jacot Monique / SWITZERLAND
James, Lesley / UK
Jimenez, Cat, / USA
Johannesson, Asa / UK
Johnsen, Hanne Holm / NORWAY
Johnson, Stella / USA
Kaplan, Arielle / USA
Kasmauski, Karen / USA ( Established 15-25 years )
Kasten, Barbara / USA  
Katchian, Sonia / USA
Kaur, Siri / USA
Keaton, Diane / USA
Keegan, Maria / USA
Keim, Deinse / USA
Kendellan, Ann / USA
Khornak, Lucille / USA
Kim, Yunghi / USA
Kirillina, , Alexandra / RUSSIA
Kiviat, Katherine / USA
Klute, Jeanette / USA
Knowles, Katherine / USA
Kon, Michiko / JAPAN
Korth, Sabine / GERMANY / ITALY
Kramer, Denise / USA
Krementz, Jill / USA
Krischan, Donna / USA
Kruger, Barbara / USA ( Distinguished 25 + )
Kunin, Claudia / USA
Kunin, Claudia / USA
Kurtzweil, Tove / DENMARK
La Montia, Melody / USA
Lakeman, Sandra Davis / USA
Lamaina, Suzun Lucia / USA
Lacombe, Bridgette / USA
Larabee, Constance Stuart / USA
Laviolette, Bijou / CANADA
Lee, Betty / USA
Lee, June H. / USA
Leen, Sarah / USA
Lenkus, Linnea / USA
Leonard, Joanne / USA
Lepkoff, Rebecca/ USA
LeVine, Nancy / USA
Levine, Suzanne C.  / USA
Levitt, Helen / USA ( Distinguished 25 + )
Liebold, Susan / USA
Ling, Elaine / CANADA  ( Established 15-25 years )
London, Laura / USA
Lopez, Joyce P. / USA  ( Established 15-25 years )
Lui, Diana / FRANCE( Established 15-25 years )
Lukasova, Veronika / USA
Lustenberger, Brigitte / SWITZERLAND  ( Emerging 5-15 years )
Lux, Loretta Dresden / EAST GERMANY ( Emerging 5-15 years )
Lynn, Jenny / USA
Macko, Nancy / USA
Madigan, Martha / USA
Madison, Meg / USA
Maitecart, Dana / FRANCE
Mann, Sally / USA ( Distinguished 25 + )
Manning, Erin / USA ( Emerging 5-15 years )
Marcinkowska, Karolina / POLAND  ( Debutante 1-5 years )
Marcuse, Tanya / USA
Marsted, Marcia Reid / USA
Martin, Patricia / MEXICO
Matar, Rania Lebanon / USA  ( Emerging 5-15 years )
Matthew, Annu Palakunnathu / USA
Meyer, Cheryl Diaz / USA
McClintock, Heather / USA ( Emerging 5-15 years )
McCartney, Mary / UK ( Emerging 5-15 years )
McConnellk, Julie A. / USA
McDonnell, Niamh / IRELAND
McDonough, Heather / UK
McGehee, Stephanie / KUAIT
McLaughlin, Kathleen / USA
McLemore, Julia / USA
Mee, Yoon Jeong / KOREA
Meiselas, Susan / USA ( Distinguished 25 + )
Meiser, Winifred / USA
Messanger, Annette / FRANCE
Metzner, Sheila / USA
Miller, Freyda / USA
Miskend, Donna / USA
Mitchell, Margaretta K. / USA
Modica, Andrea / USA ( Established 15-25 years )
Modo, Melissa Sara / ITALY
Moffatt, Tracy / AUSTRALIA
Momatiuk, Yva / USA
Money, Catherine / USA
Montanari, Marie-Claire / USA
Moon, Sarah / FRANCE ( Distinguished 25 + )
Moore, Orah / USA
Morath, Inge / FRANCE
Morphew, Lisa N. / USA
Moser, Lida / USA ( Distinguished 25 + )
Moul, Laura / USA
Mozesson, Phiz / USA
Müller, Karin Apollonia / GERMANY ( Established 15-25 years )
Munni, Munira Morshed / INDIA
Murray, M. Eileen / USA
Myers, Joan / USA
Nance, Marilyn / USA
Nárez, Kenia / MEXICO
Nash, Leah / USA
Neshat, Shirin / IRAN / USA
Nestor, Helen / USA
Nettles, Bea / USA
Niccolini, Dianora / USA
Nicolay, Susan Lirakis / USA
Nitke, Barbara / USA
Nix, Lori / USA
Noel, Laura / USA
Norfleet, Barbara Pugh / USA
Nye, Carol / USA
O'Connor, Dorothy / USA
O'Hare, Andrea/ IRELAND
Oates, Leah / USA;
Ollila, Teresa / USA
Olson, Rosanne / USA
Opalenik, Elizabeth / USA
Opie, Catherine / USA ( Established 15-25 years )
Opton, Suzanne / USA
Ori, Nancy J. / USA
Otte, Susan / USA
Pagliuso,  Jean / USA ( Distinguished 25 + )
Parker, Olivia / USA
Parks, Judi / USA
Pearsall, Stacy / USA
Pennella, Rosanne / USA
Pérez Bravo, Marta Maria / CUBA ( Distinguished 25 + )
Pettit, Beverly / USA
Pinneo, Joanna / USA
Pinkel, Sheila / USA
Ponsold, Renate / USA
Postle, Amy / USA
Powell, LaDonna M. / USA
Press, Betty / USA
Prins, Lieve / NETHERLANDS
Pulga, Patrizia / ITALY  ( Established 15-25 years )
Purcell, Rosamond Wolff / USA
Rachel, Vaughan / USA
Lara Jo Ragen / USA
Rankaitis, Susan / USA
Rea, Vienne / USA
Reeder, Mona / USA
Resnick, Marcia / USA
Ressler, Susan Rebecca / USA
Rheims, Bettina / FRANCE  ( Distinguished 25 + )
Richeson, Juanita / USA
Richards, Patricia D. / USA ( Established 15-25 years )
Ridenour, Patricia / USA
Riggs, Karen / USA
Rink, j. Madison, / USA
Robertson, Lisa M / USA
Roff, Leah Adrian / USA
Rogala, Dawn / USA
Romais, Miram / USA
Rosenthal, Barbara / USA
Rosner-Kozuch, Tali / USA
Ross, Judith Joy / USA ( Established 15-25 years )
Rubenstein, Meridel / USA
Rubinstein, Eva / USA
Roundtree, Deborah / USA
Ruzickova, Peg / CZECH REPUBLIC
Rytteke, Sara C. / USA
Sadin, Lizzie / FRANCE ( Emerging 5-15 years )
Saleh, Hannan / USA
Sanders, Marilyn / USA
Sanseverino, Sveva Costa / USA
Sapountzi, Aliki / SCOTLAND
Sartor, Margaret / USA
Schiffman, Bonnie / USA (( Distinguished 25 + )
Schneider, Wendi / USA
Schoenfeld, Diana Lindsay / USA
Schupp, Bonnie / USA
Schwartzenberg, Susan / USA
Seaman, Camille / USA
Seed, Suzanne / USA
Seilgman, Sharon / USA
Sharifi Soody / USA
Sherman,Cindy / USA ( Distinguished 25 + )
Sherman, Editta, Dutches of Carnegie / USA
Siegfried, Elizabeth / CANADA ( Emerging 5-15 years )
Simmons, Laurie / USA
Simpson, Lorna / USA
Sinclair, Stephanie / USA / AFGHANISTAN  ( Established 15-25 years )
Sligh, Clarissa / USA
Small, Rena / USA
Small, Sarah / USA
Smithson, Aline / USA
Solomon, Rosalind / USA
Sonneman, Eve / USA
Spain, Dar / USA
Specht, Jill / USA
Springs, Alice /June Newton / MONTE CARLO ( Distinguished 25 + )
Steber, Maggie/ USA
Steinmann, Catherine / USA ( Distinguished 25 + )
Stenzel, Maria / USA ( Established 15-25 years )
Strippe, Natalie FRANCE
Struebing-Beazley, Kirsten   / USA
Stummer, Helen / USA  ( Established 15-25 years )
Sullivan, Barbara / USA
Sullivan, Joan / CANADA
Sunday, Elisabeth / USA
Susan Bernstein / USA
Sweeney, Marla / USA ( Emerging 5-15 years )
Switzer, Katherine / USA
Szasz, Suzanne / USA
Tavakolian, Newsha / IRAN
Taylor, Judith / USA
Taylor, Maggie / USA ( Established 15-25 years )
Taylor-Wood, Sam / UK
Terry, Sara / USA
Thompson, Hazel / UK  ( Emerging 5-15 years )
Tierney, Amy /USA
Tilling, Margaret / SOUTH AFRICIA
Topalian, Carole / USA
Topaz, Vicki / USA
Tree, Nicola / UK
Trenda, Tiffany / USA
Tsinhnahjinnie. Hullea  / USA   ( Established 15-25 years )
Tulisz, Hajnalka / HUNGREY
Turbeville, Deborah / USA ( Distinguished 25 + )
Turner, Judith / USA
Underhill, Lynn / USA
Uyeda, Seiko / USA
Vail, Veronique / FRANCE / USA
Vallejos, Lani / USA
Van Cleve, Barbara / USA
Van Keuren, Sarah / USA
Van Meene, Helen / NETHERLANDS ( Emerging 5-15 years )
Vanderford, Amie / USA
Vignes, Michelle / USA ( Distinguished 25 + )
Villines, Carrie / USA ( Emerging 5-15 years )
Vitale, Ami Kashmir / INDIA ( Debutante 1-5 years )
Waage, Margaret / USA
Wagner, Catherine / USA
Waidhofer, Linde / USA
Walker, Diana / USA
E.K. Waller / USA
Walther, Hedda / GERMANY
Wang, Miao/ CHINA / USA
Warfield, Joanne / USA
Warner, Ellen / USA
Washburn, Peg / USA
Waterman, Sally / UK
Watson, Edith S. / USA
Weil, Mathilde / USA
Weiss, Sabine / FRANCE
Wellman, Ilona / GERMANY ( Established 15-25 years )
Westerlind, Eva Skold / USA
Westwood, Carol / USA
Whitaker, Luciana Barrow / BRAZIL
Wier, Nevada / USA
Wilkerson, Angilee / USA
Williams, Susan / USA
Willis, Deborah / USA  ( Distinguished 25 + )
Wilson, Joyce / USA ( Distinguished 25 + )
Wilson, Lilian Elaine / USA
Wise, Harriet / USA
Whitcomb, Laine / USA
Wolf, Linda / USA
Wootten, Bayard Morgan / USA
Wright, Carolyn E. / USA
Wright, Dare / USA
Wright, Mabel Osgood / USA
Wulz, Wanda / ITALY
Wyman, Ida / USA
Yanagi, Miwa / JAPAN  ( Debutante 1-5 years )
Yeager, Bunny / USA
York, Pat / USA ( Distinguished 25 + )
Zancan, Chiara / ITALY
Zarro, Alison / USA
Zellen, Judy / USA

SEE: WIPI 2008 COLLECTION Distinguished Photographers chosen from the list