Dick Wendling has published a blog looking at the life and career of Lena Connell (1875-1949), an important photographer of the women’s suffragette movement in the early 20th century. She claimed to be the first woman photographer not restricted to women clients and photographed politicians and others. In an interview for The Vote in May 1910, Lena said she became committed to the suffragette movement when she photographed Gladice Keevil, after her release from Holloway prison in 1908.
Read the full blog here: http://kilburnwesthampstead.blogspot.com/2023/07/lena-connell-suffragette-photographer.html and read more and her her work here: https://www.sistersofthelens.com/lena-connell
Image: Self portrait of Lena Connell,1910
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