RPS Hundred Heroines by Isadora Kosofsky

Isadora was nominated for the Royal Photo Society’s Hundred Heroines’ campaign, honoring a hundred women in photography.

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One of the first nominations we received for our campaign Hundred Heroines: Celebrating Women in Photography Today was from #Girlgaze, who nominated Isadora Kosofsky for her work as a documentary photographer.  Isadora’s practice favours long-term documentaries through which she draws the viewer into a different world - a world that is at times uncomfortable, unnerving and uneasy, but always a world that evokes a strong emotional response.

Hidden in Sight, Hofstra Museum by Isadora Kosofsky

Visit Hidden in Sight: Photographing Incarceration at the Hofstra University Museum, open until March.

“The United States has the highest rate of incarceration of any country in the world, with over 2 million people currently imprisoned. This exhibition features photographs spanning more than 50 years by three artists, Danny Lyon (American, born 1942), Jessica Earnshaw (Canadian, born 1983), and Isadora Kosofsky (American, born 1993), highlighting the varied critical issues within the prison system in America.”

Women Photograph by Isadora Kosofsky

Check out the new database of over 400 women photographers worldwide. 

This site is meant to be a resource for female* documentary and editorial photographers and the people who would like to hire them. Every photographer in this database is available for freelance assignments and has 5+ years of work experience.