Editor: Alexandre Kurek

In celebration of International Women's Day, allcitiesarebeautiful.com presents a curated selection of 19 outstanding contemporary female photographers showcased on this platform. This diverse compilation highlights the remarkable work of emerging female photographers, offering a unique feminine perspective in photography. These female lens-based artists, with their innovative vision, contribute to the contemporary art scene and the world of visual storytelling. Each entry includes links to in-depth interviews and an extensive collection of their works, allowing you to explore their creative contributions, particularly in the realm of new topographics and contemporary photographic art.

At a Glance: 19 contemporary female photographers

• Sopho Sikharulidze
• Callie Mills
• Charlotte Schreiber
• Lucía Lacurcia
• Clarissa Bonet
• Sareh Arjmand
• Lisa Gidley
• Alessia Morellini
• Sandra Monvoisin
• Andrea Vollmer
• Rachelle Mendez
• Ayda Gragossian
• Kira Gyngazova
• Macayli Hausmann
• Penn Whaling
• Stefania Orfanidou
• Marie Kreibich
• Işık Kaya
• Preschelle Ann Bigueras

Sopho Sikharulidze

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Callie Mills is a Wisconsin native who moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in entertainment. While exploring her new surroundings, she discovered a passion for photography through urban landscape photography, and her interest grew as she explored the work of famous photographers such as Stephen Shore and William Eggleston.

After receiving a camera as a birthday gift from her mother, she has continued to develop her photography skills and explore new compositions and locations in Los Angeles and beyond.

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Charlotte Schreiber, a photographer based in Hamburg, Germany, is deeply passionate about capturing visual moments in daily life. Though photography is her day job, Charlotte sees the world through her lens and is constantly driven to capture the beauty of the little things she observes around her.

She was drawn to photography in high school and has been honing her skills ever since. Charlotte is motivated by her love for the little details, the light reflections, and graphic accents that bring images to life.

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Lucía Lacurcia

Lucía Lacurcia is a Uruguayan-Venezuelan journalist and photographer currently residing in Montevideo. Having spent equal parts of her life in three different countries, she feels uprooted and disconnected from any particular place.

This feeling led her to take up photography as a way of linking herself to her environment and appropriating it. Lucía's relationship with photography began when her family purchased a photo shop, and she started taking pictures with cheap rolls of film.

Though she initially wanted to be a filmmaker and photographer, she ended up becoming a journalist and worked as a reporter for several years before pursuing a master's degree in political science in Barcelona. 

Clarissa Bonet

In her works, Clarissa Bonet, an artist based in Chicago, Illinois, explores the urban space in both a physical and psychological context. As a teenager, Clarissa discovered photography and was captivated by its ability to transform the world in front of the lens. When she moved to Chicago as an adult, she was struck by the city's landscape and started using photography as a way to understand her newfound environment.

This led to two significant bodies of work, City Space and Stray Light. City Space is a project that explores the cityscape from a pedestrian's perspective, while Stray Light examines the interactions between artificial light and the urban environment.

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Sareh Arjmand

Sareh Arjmand is a photographer based in Tehran, Iran, who discovered her passion for photography at the age of 28. She has a unique perspective on photography, believing that the beauty of a photo does not solely rely on impressive light, colors, and landscapes but also in the interaction between objects and their environment. Sareh finds inspiration while walking through the city, capturing accidental and unplanned moments that have a story to tell.

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Alessia Morellini

Alessia Morellini, a self-taught photographer, resides and works in Modena, Italy. Her two loves in life are photography and travel, which have taken her beyond the borders of her country. Alessia works as a freelance photographer in the commercial field, but her heart remains in travel photography. She seeks to convey a sense of tranquility and peacefulness through her pictures, amidst the frenetic and chaotic world we live in.

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Sandra Monvoisin

Sandra Monvoisin is a Spanish-French artist who has specialized in Programming Art and Cultural Events and works in an advertising agency in Barcelona. She discovered her love for photography during one of her trips to Venice, which inspired her to buy a camera.

Sandra's pictures tell a story that she leaves open to interpretation by the viewers, seeking to create a specific stimulus through her photography. She finds cities an attractive subject matter, as they are concentrated with the good, the bad, and the worst of human beings.

In her photography, she uses objects as an integral part of the energy of cities to interpret the dynamics and habits of people. Sandra believes that the process of creating art is as important as the final result, and she enjoys the activities of planning, walking, observing, and reflecting when taking pictures.

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Andrea Vollmer is a photographer based in Berlin who focuses on personal and commissioned projects in the field between documentary and conceptual photography. In collaboration with fellow photographer Michael Kuchinke-Hofer, she has worked on a project called «Zwischen Pyramiden [In between Pyramids],» which captures the unique aura of La Grande Motte, a utopian city by the sea in the south of France.

Vollmer’s and Kuchinke-Hofer's photographs of this unusual city, designed by French architect Jean Balladur, have been published in Die ZEIT and awarded the «Heritage of the 20th Century» award for their depiction of the city's evolved unity of architecture and vegetation.

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Rachelle Mendez is a photographer who has a passion for capturing the beauty in everyday surroundings, particularly the urban landscape and the visual language that shapes it. She lives on the border of Los Angeles County and Orange County, which has given her a unique perspective on the highly congested landscape.

Rachelle has channeled this perspective into her long-running series, «Minimal Hardscapes,» which documents the color and layered geometry of the city, highlighting how we visually confront the urban environment.

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Ayda Gragossian

Ayda Gragossian is an Iranian-Armenian photographer based in Los Angeles. She was born in Iran and spent most of her childhood in Tehran before living in Perth, Vienna, and Oxford. Ayda discovered her love for photography during her undergraduate program where she spent hours in the darkroom printing and experimenting.

Her photography focuses on capturing the urban landscape of cities, particularly Los Angeles, and challenging common misperceptions of the city. Ayda's work portrays the aspects of the city that are often overlooked by those confined to their cars, capturing what she encounters every day. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums across the United States, Europe, and Asia.

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Macayli Hausmann is a freelance photographer currently based in St. Louis, Missouri. Her interest in photography began as a child, and she started taking it seriously after taking a dark room photography class in high school.

Her creative process is guided by equal parts intuition and intention, and she aims to capture offbeat moments and observations rather than linear narratives in her work. Macayli's project, «Emotional Algorithm,» began as a visual journal during the pandemic and has evolved into a personal extension of herself.

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Penn Whaling is a New York City-based photographer who captures the constantly evolving landscape of the city through her lens. Although she began taking photographs as a child, it wasn't until she found herself with a lot of free time as an adult that she picked up her camera again and started exploring the city.

Whaling's process is deliberate, as she scouts locations and revisits them at the right time of day and year to capture the perfect shot. Through her work, she seeks to document the city's transformation and show the coexistence of old and new structures.

Whaling's project, «Still Here,» explores the resilience and grit of New York's buildings and their ability to survive through periods of disruption.

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Işık Kaya is a visual artist originally from Turkey, now based in Los Angeles. With a formal training background in photography, she explores the relationship between humans, their environment, and nature in her work. Kaya's projects often focus on urban environments and the impact of human activity on them.

She is known for her series «Second Nature,» for which she teamed up with photographer Thomas Georg Blank. Their series documents cell tower trees in Southern California and questions the relationship between technology, infrastructure, and the natural world.

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Preschelle Ann Bigueras is a Filipino photographer currently based in Dubai. Although not a professional photographer, she has been taking photographs since 2009 when she was inspired by photos taken with a Holga camera.

Preschelle's photography style is mostly spontaneous and intuitive, though some subjects require a more planned approach. Her photographs reflect her perspective of the world around her and serve as visual notes of her daily observations and unexpected encounters.

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Editor: Alexandre Kurek

In celebration of International Women's Day, allcitiesarebeautiful.com presents a curated selection of 19 outstanding contemporary female photographers showcased on this platform. This diverse compilation highlights the remarkable work of emerging female photographers, offering a unique feminine perspective in photography. These female lens-based artists, with their innovative vision, contribute to the contemporary art scene and the world of visual storytelling. Each entry includes links to in-depth interviews and an extensive collection of their works, allowing you to explore their creative contributions, particularly in the realm of new topographics and contemporary photographic art.

At a Glance: 19 contemporary female photographers

• Sopho Sikharulidze
• Callie Mills
• Charlotte Schreiber
• Lucía Lacurcia
• Clarissa Bonet
• Sareh Arjmand
• Lisa Gidley
• Alessia Morellini
• Sandra Monvoisin
• Andrea Vollmer
• Rachelle Mendez
• Ayda Gragossian
• Kira Gyngazova
• Macayli Hausmann
• Penn Whaling
• Stefania Orfanidou
• Marie Kreibich
• Işık Kaya
• Preschelle Ann Bigueras

Sopho Sikharulidze

Read the Interview

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Charlotte Schreiber, a photographer based in Hamburg, Germany, is deeply passionate about capturing visual moments in daily life. Though photography is her day job, Charlotte sees the world through her lens and is constantly driven to capture the beauty of the little things she observes around her.

She was drawn to photography in high school and has been honing her skills ever since. Charlotte is motivated by her love for the little details, the light reflections, and graphic accents that bring images to life.

In her works, Clarissa Bonet, an artist based in Chicago, Illinois, explores the urban space in both a physical and psychological context. As a teenager, Clarissa discovered photography and was captivated by its ability to transform the world in front of the lens. When she moved to Chicago as an adult, she was struck by the city's landscape and started using photography as a way to understand her newfound environment.

This led to two significant bodies of work, City Space and Stray Light. City Space is a project that explores the cityscape from a pedestrian's perspective, while Stray Light examines the interactions between artificial light and the urban environment.

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Sandra Monvoisin is a Spanish-French artist who has specialized in Programming Art and Cultural Events and works in an advertising agency in Barcelona. She discovered her love for photography during one of her trips to Venice, which inspired her to buy a camera.

Sandra's pictures tell a story that she leaves open to interpretation by the viewers, seeking to create a specific stimulus through her photography. She finds cities an attractive subject matter, as they are concentrated with the good, the bad, and the worst of human beings.

In her photography, she uses objects as an integral part of the energy of cities to interpret the dynamics and habits of people. Sandra believes that the process of creating art is as important as the final result, and she enjoys the activities of planning, walking, observing, and reflecting when taking pictures.

Read the Interview

Andrea Vollmer

Andrea Vollmer is a photographer based in Berlin who focuses on personal and commissioned projects in the field between documentary and conceptual photography. In collaboration with fellow photographer Michael Kuchinke-Hofer, she has worked on a project called «Zwischen Pyramiden [In between Pyramids],» which captures the unique aura of La Grande Motte, a utopian city by the sea in the south of France.

Vollmer’s and Kuchinke-Hofer's photographs of this unusual city, designed by French architect Jean Balladur, have been published in Die ZEIT and awarded the «Heritage of the 20th Century» award for their depiction of the city's evolved unity of architecture and vegetation.

Rachelle Mendez is a photographer who has a passion for capturing the beauty in everyday surroundings, particularly the urban landscape and the visual language that shapes it. She lives on the border of Los Angeles County and Orange County, which has given her a unique perspective on the highly congested landscape.

Rachelle has channeled this perspective into her long-running series, «Minimal Hardscapes,» which documents the color and layered geometry of the city, highlighting how we visually confront the urban environment.

Ayda Gragossian

Macayli Hausmann is a freelance photographer currently based in St. Louis, Missouri. Her interest in photography began as a child, and she started taking it seriously after taking a dark room photography class in high school.

Her creative process is guided by equal parts intuition and intention, and she aims to capture offbeat moments and observations rather than linear narratives in her work. Macayli's project, «Emotional Algorithm,» began as a visual journal during the pandemic and has evolved into a personal extension of herself.

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Marie Kreibich is a freelance photographer and designer from Cologne, Germany. Photography has been her passion since she was gifted her first point-and-shoot camera, with family and friends as her initial focus. As she grew, so did her interest in documentary photography, which she studied while earning a degree in communication design.

Today, Marie's photographic projects mostly explore spaces and places. Her inspiration comes from exploring cities and capturing life and architecture from her perspective.

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Preschelle Ann Bigueras is a Filipino photographer currently based in Dubai. Although not a professional photographer, she has been taking photographs since 2009 when she was inspired by photos taken with a Holga camera.

Preschelle's photography style is mostly spontaneous and intuitive, though some subjects require a more planned approach. Her photographs reflect her perspective of the world around her and serve as visual notes of her daily observations and unexpected encounters.

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Editorial Notes:

If you have a News—Features article that you would like to share on this platform, please feel free to submit it using the submission form.