Women in Photography
Wild Woman Photography supports and celebrates the creativity, growth and success of women in photography.
Check out the profiles of our featured photographers.
Brie Stockwell
Landscape/Nature
Austin, Texas, USA
Exploring the landscape has offered Brie a HUGE variety of growth opportunities both personally and photographically. She thrives on making connections in her art and personal life.
Sarah Lyndsay
Environmental Self-Portrait
YouTuber
Alberta, Canada
Through her art, Sarah strives to weave stories that evoke profound emotions and foster deep connections with viewers. Currently known for her yellow dress self-portraits.
Shanda Akin
Multi-Passionate Photographer
Durango, Colorado, USA
Shanda’s fine art photography is the result of her pursuit to witness a depleting natural globe, bring the surreal to life, and archive remarkable moments in time while sharing her view of the world.
Alyce Bender
Wildlife/Landscape
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Tamron USA Ambassador, Alyce Bender, is passionate about nature/wildlife and, through her photography, promotes conservation, creativity, and ethical photography.
Huibo Hou
Landscape/B&W
San Diego, California, USA
Huibo is passionate about landscape photography, especially in black and white. She uses it as a creative outlet to express how she observes, interprets, and connects with nature.
Talor Stone
Visual Storyteller/Photographer
Pensacola, Florida, USA
As an Arctic specialist, Talor’s work merges science and art to highlight themes of transition and fragility and emotionally connect viewers to places few will ever visit.
Michele Sons
Landscape/Nature
Southwestern Virginia, USA
Michele Sons is a full-time fine art landscape and nature photographer, writer, and educator. Her work is based on a soft, subtle, pared-down aesthetic. Fog, mist, and soft light are intrinsic elements present in many of her images..
Margaret Soraya
Photographer/Artist, Speaker & Retreat Leader
Scotland
Margaret Soraya is a Scottish photographer, fine artist and creative thought leader.
Sarah Marino
Nature Photographer/Educator
SW Colorado, USA
Sarah is best known for her photographs of smaller subjects including intimate landscapes, abstract renditions of natural subjects, and creative portraits of plants and trees.
Erin Babnik
Wilderness Landscape Photography
California, USA/Slovenia
Erin Babnik is is known internationally as a leading photographic artist, educator, author, and speaker. She’s a Canon Explorer of Light, f-stop gear Global ICON, a ProMedia Gear Ambassador, and Photo Cascadia team member.
Shauna Hart
Wildlife Photography
Northern Utah
Shana Hart is a wildlife photographer and naturalist. She’s on the board of directors at the Utah Wildlife Federation, a member of the Utah Wildlife Connectivity Committee and advocate for wildlife in areas of development in Utah.
Suzanne Roady
Multi-Passionate Photographer
Michigan, USA
Suzanne Roady has a lifelong passion for photography. SHer journey has led her to explore different imaging techniques carying from infrared, ultraviolet, macro and others.
Jen Walton
Storm/Volcano Photography
Denver, Colorado, USA
Jen Walton is a Denver-based storm & volcano chaser, photographer, entrepreneur and founder of Girls Who Chase. She likes to “find the grace in fury,” — beauty in the extreme, and light in the dark.
Vanessa Wingerath
Female Empowerment Photography
Tuscon, Arizona USA
Vanessa Wingerath specializes in empowering women through wild portraits and birth photography. She hosts retreats and events in Tucson and beyond that foster radical women’s community.
Melissa Schäfer
Bear/Arctic Photographer
Sweden
A deep love for the Arctic and polar bears as well as a strong commitment to nature and the environment is a foundation for all her work. Melissa is the founder and editor in chief of “Mother” magazine and organizes expeditions in the Arctic.
Colleen Miniuk
Nature/Landscape Photography
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Author, photographer and bubble chaser, Colleen Miniuk, leads photography workshops and women’s photography retreats (called Sheography™), writes an advice column called “Dear Bubbles” and presents online for camera clubs, outdoor organizations, and private clients across the U.S.
Shona Perkins
ICM/Seascape Photography
Edinburgh, Scotland
Shona is a Scottish seascape and ICM Photographer and the founder of My Beautiful Scotland.
Shona captures solitude, tranquillity and haunting beauty in her work, while maintaining her recognisable painterly style.
Brittany Colt
Nature/Landscape and Wilderness Portraits
Bishop, California, USA
Brittany Colt is a photography teacher and guide as well as an environmental portraitist that loves empowering women through her work. Being blind in one eye influences her photographic style where she focuses on unique intimate perspectives.
Ashlei Payne
Documentary Filmmaking & Photojournalism
California, USA
Filmmaker, photojournalist, and founder of TracingThought Productions, Ashlei Payne immerses herself in her subjects’ lives, from Borneo’s rainforests to the hills of Kashmir, to tell stories rooted in deep human connection.
Susan Magnano
Light Painting & Night Photography
New York, USA
Light painter, night photographer, and educator Susan Magnano chases light from sunrise to sunset, then creates her own after dark. She shares her techniques through Photour Adventures workshops and photo walks.
Viktoria Haack
Landscape, Portrait & Multi-Genre Photography
British Columbia, Canada
K-born, BC-based Nikon ambassador Viktoria Haack moves easily between landscapes, portraits, and self-portraits, creating images that share how a place feels as much as how it looks.
Suzanne Mathia
Landscape Photography
Arizona, USA
English-born, Arizona-based landscape photographer Suzanne Mathia is an Arizona Highways regular whose Grand Canyon images have landed on the magazine’s cover and inside the park’s Visitor Center.
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Stine Jørgensen
Winter Photography & Co-Founder of Vallerret
Voss, Norway
Tired of frozen fingers, Stine Lyng Jørgensen stitched together her first photography glove and co-founded Vallerret, now the go-to brand for winter photographers worldwide, from her home base in Voss, Norway.
Angela Ledyard
Landscape, Nature & Wildlife Photography
Landscape and wildlife photographer Angela Ledyard co-founded Black Female Landscape and Nature Photographers, creating a community that brings more Black women behind the camera and into the wild.
Brenda Tharp
Nature, Landscape & Travel Photography
California, USA
A professional photographer since 1985, Brenda Tharp is an award-winning artist, author, and educator specializing in nature, landscape, and travel photography. She wrote Creative Nature & Outdoor Photography and Expressive Nature Photography, and her work has appeared in Outdoor Photographer and Forbes. She leads workshops and photo tours around the world.
Valentina Parente
Seascape, Landscape & Film Photography
Italy
Italian film and digital photographer Valentina Parente chases long exposures, seascapes, and slow travel, from the Mediterranean to Norway’s Lofoten Islands.
Martha Montiel
Nature & Landscape Photography
Colorado, USA
orn and raised in Mexico City and now based in Colorado, Martha Montiel is a nature and landscape photographer with a background in art and graphic design. She’s one of three co-founders of Outdoor Photo Alliance, which creates connection and growth for outdoor photographers, including an intimate women’s conference in Estes Park.
Laura Zirino
Landscape Photography
Arizona, USA
Former union rep Laura Zirino retired early with one goal: shoot for Arizona Highways. Three months later, she did. Today she photographs the Southwest’s landscapes and shows her work in Flagstaff.
Beth Buelow
Abstract & Minimalist Photography
Michigan, USA
Michigan-based artist, Professional Certified Coach, and educator Beth Buelow specializes in abstract and minimalist photography, guided by one philosophy: “If you’re not amazed, you’re not paying attention.” She hosts the Pixels podcast, exploring the heart and art of photography.
Tiffany Reed Briley
Landscape & Nature Photography
South Carolina, USA
Two-time PPA Diamond Photographer of the Year Tiffany Reed Briley turned her love of wild places into three photography businesses, guiding photographers from Charleston’s boneyard beaches and beyond.
Kristen Ryan
Fine Art Landscape Photography
Illinois, USA
Landscape photographer, mother of four, and Teton devotee Kristen Ryan leads women’s photography retreats and created Women Capture Magic, a thriving community for women behind the lens.
Taylor Picard
Small Scenes, Abstracts & Nature Photography
Utah, USA
Southern Utah hiking guide and naturalist Taylor Picard turns small scenes, abstracts, and desert plants into a creative meditation, and dreams of blending photography into her guided adventures.
Dawn Wilson
Wildlife & Nature Photography
Colorado, USA
Former NANPA president Dawn Wilson photographs and writes about wildlife from her Estes Park home base, leading tours that help people understand, and care about, the animals they see.
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