This is a list of women photographers who were born in

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

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Sofia Ahlbom Sofia Carolina Ahlbom (25 November 1803 – 8 June 1868) was a Swedish drawing artist, engraver, lithographer, photographer, map maker, writer, poet and feminist. Life Sofia Ahlbom was born in Västerås, the daughter of a goldsmith. She disp ...

(1803–1868), feminist, practiced as a photographer from the 1860s * Elise Arnberg (1826–1891), miniaturist and photographer

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* Beata Bergström (1921–2016), photographer, known for her dance and theatre work * Arvida Byström (born 1991), photographer and model based in Los Angeles

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* Anna Clarén (born 1972), photographer and educator

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Lotten von Düben Carolina Charlotta Mariana von Düben, commonly known as Lotten von Düben ( née von Bahr; November 23, 1828 – December 25, 1915) was an early Swedish amateur photographer and a pioneering reportage and documentary photographer. Her work const ...

(1828–1915), early amateur photographer

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* Hélène Edlund (1858–1941), views of buildings and nature of Skansen * Hedda Ekman (1860–1929), writer and photographer

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* Ingrid Falk (born 1960), installation artist * Hanna Ferlin (1870–1947), photographer and suffragist *

Lisa Fonssagrives Lisa or LISA may refer to: People People with the mononym * Lisa Lisa (born 1967), American actress and lead singer of the Cult Jam * Lisa (Japanese musician, born 1974), stylized "LISA", Japanese singer and producer * Lisa Komine (born 1978), J ...

(1911–1992), model, dancer, sculptor, and photographer * Maria Friberg (born 1966), painter, photographer, video artist

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* Marianne Greenwood (1916–2006), photographed

Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...

and other artists in

Antibes Antibes (, also , ; oc, label=Provençal dialect, Provençal, Antíbol) is a coastal city in the Alpes-Maritimes Departments of France, department of southeastern France, on the French Riviera, Côte d'Azur between Cannes and Nice. The town of ...

after the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

, later photographing the peoples of the Pacific islands and parts of Asia

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Johanna Hald Brita Margareta Johanna Hald (born 20 July 1945 in Stockholm) is a Swedish director, photographer and screenwriter. Selected filmography *1986 – ''Love Me! ''Love Me!'' ( sv, Älska mej) is a 1986 Swedish drama film directed by Kay Pollak ...

(born 1945), screenwriter, photographer * Caroline Hebbe (1930–2018), art photographer with the Fotofrom movement *

Brita Sofia Hesselius Brita Sofia Hesselius (1801–1866) was a Swedish daguerreotype photographer. She was likely the first professional female photographer of her country. Hesselius was born in Alster parish in the Karlstad Municipality as the daughter of Olof ...

(1801–1866), Sweden's first professional female photographer, opening a studio in

Karlstad Karlstad (, ) is the 20th-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Karlstad Municipality, the capital of Värmland County, and the largest city in the province Värmland in Sweden. The city proper had 65,856 inhabitants in 2020 with 95,167 inhabitants ...

in 1845

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Selma Jacobsson Selma Ida Jacobsson (27 January 1841, in Stockholm – 30 March 1899, in Stockholm) was a Swedish photographer. Selma Jacobsson was born to the merchant Levi Abraham Jacobsson and Sally Pohl, the sister of the opera singer Agnes Jacobsson and t ...

(1841–1899), royal court photographer * Lina Jonn (1861–1896), early Swedish professional photographer in Helsingborg and Lund, remembered for her documentary work

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* Edit Kindvall (1866–1951), Storvik photographer and women's rights activist * Marie Kinnberg (1806–1858), painter and pioneering photographer * Caroline von Knorring (1841–1925), one of Sweden's first professional female photographers

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Wilhelmina Lagerholm Wilhelmina Catharina Lagerholm (1826–1917) was a Swedish painter and an early professional female photographer. After first studying and practising painting, she turned mainly to photography in 1862, opening a studio in Örebro in central Sweden ...

(1826–1917), portrait and genre painter, photographer *

Annika Larsson Annika Larsson (born 1972 Stockholm, Sweden) is a photographer and video artist. Larsson received a Master of Fine Arts from the Royal University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm. In 2002 she had a solo exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary A ...

(born 1972), contemporary artist, photographer * Tuija Lindström (1950–2017), noted for her black-and-white pictures of women in a black lake addressing feminist issues

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* Gunnie Moberg (1941–2007), photographer in the Orkneys, Shetlands and Faroes

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Elisabeth Ohlson Elisabeth Ohlson (born 28 May 1961) is a Swedish photographer and an artist. In her works she often photographs representatives of LGBT people. Ohlson, a lesbian, is most noted for her exhibition '' Ecce homo'' which portrayed Jesus among gay ...

(born 1961), photographs sexual minorities, noted for her 1998 '' Ecce Homo'' portraying Jesus among homosexuals

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* Katarina Pirak Sikku (born 1965), Swedish Sami painter and photographer

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* Mathilda Ranch (1860–1938), early professional photographer who ran studios in Varberg and the surrounding area * Anna Riwkin-Brick (1908–1970), portrait and dance photography, photo-journalistic work

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Emma Schenson Emma Sofia Perpetua Schenson (21 September 1827 – 17 March 1913) was a Swedish photographer and painter. She was one of the earliest female professional photographers in Sweden. Biography Born in Uppsala on 21 September 1827, Schenson was the ...

(1827–1913), early professional photographer * Kristina Schmid (born 1972), fine art photographer * Helene Schmitz (born 1960), photographer, writer * Olga Segerberg (1868–1951), photographer and suffragist *

Hilda Sjölin Hilda Sjölin (1835–1915) was a Swedish photographer, one of the first known professional woman pioneer photographers in her country. Life Hilda Aurora Amanda Sjölin (1835-1915) was raised in Malmö as one of four daughters, where she was th ...

(1835–1915), one of Sweden's first professional female photographers, opening a studio in

Malmö Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal populat ...

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Rosalie Sjöman Rosalie Sofie Sjöman (née Hammarqvist, 1833–1919) was an early Swedish female photographer. From the mid-1860s, she became one of Stockholm's most highly regarded portrait photographers. Biography Born on 16 October 1833 in Kalmar in the sout ...

(1833–1919), highly regarded portrait photographer *

Hedvig Söderström Hedvig Söderström (1830–1914) was a Swedish photographer.Julner, Evert (1982). ”Stockholms första kvinnliga fotograf?: Hedvig Charlotta Söderström”. Meddelande / Fotografiska museet 1982:1/2,: sid. 11-12. ISSN 0348-5412. ISSN 0348-5412 ...

(1830–1914), first woman to open a studio in Stockholm

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* Maria Tesch (1850–1936), professional photographer, studio in Linköping * Ida Trotzig (1864–1943), photographer, ethnographer, Japanologist, painter and writer

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Bertha Valerius Aurora Valeria Albertina Valerius, known as Bertha (21 January 1824, Stockholm – 24 March 1895, Stockholm), was a Swedish photographer and painter.''Svenskt konstnärslexikon'', Part V, pg. 572, Allhems Förlag AB, 1953, Malmö. Biography Bert ...

(1835–1915), official photographer of the Royal Swedish court

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Berit Wallenberg Anna Berit Wallenberg (19 February 1902 – 4 September 1995) was a Swedish archaeologist, anthropologist, art historian, photographer, and philanthropist. She established a research foundation, the Berit Wallenberg Foundation, that awards funds ...

(1902–1995), archaeologist, art historian, photographer

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