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Born Anna Riwkin-Brick born Anna Riwkin (Hebrew: חנה ריבקין-בריק, Surazh, Chernigov Governorate, Russia 23 June [O.S. 10 June] 1908 – Tel Aviv 19 December 1970) was a Russian-born Swedish photographer.

Anna Riwkin 10 June 1908, Surazh, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire

Died 19 December 1970 (aged 62) Tel Aviv, Israel

Anna Riwkin was born in Surazh in the Russian Empire into a Jewish family and came to Sweden, at the age of 7, with her parents in 1914. Her father Scholom Sender (Alexander) Riwkin, born in Gomel in 1878, had studied philosophy in Heidelberg before becoming a paper manufacturer, and published philosophical pamphlets in his youth. Her mother was Frida Perlman (1881–1944). The family were part of the Ashkenazi Jewish community. Anna was affectionately nicknamed Anusjka and Channo within the family. Via Wikipedia

Palestine : photographs by Anna Riwkin-Brick / text by Daniel Brick

Mary Reynolds “Untitled (Photo Booth Self-Portrait),” about 1925–1940.

Mary Reynolds Collection, gift of Marjorie Watkins, October 1992

photo Photography Marina Monaco,

HOMELESS SOULS By Isabel Tejeda Martin | Translated by Laura Suffield

“Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family, colleagues and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known from childhood.” (Milan Kundera)

When looking at the work of the Czech photographer Jitka Hanzlová, the initial challenge lies in relating it to the statement that she made to me in her house in Essen last year and which appears at the start of this essay below the quotations from Julio Cortazar and Milan Kundera. In my opinion all her series are portraits. Experienced and analysed from that viewpoint, all those looks and expressions, shot in vertical format in distant parts of the world, reflect her statement and have a bearing on the relationship of the individual with the context in which that person lives. source and more: http://www.jitkahanzlova.com/about.htm

Art by Minh Lan Tran, photo Magda Pawluczuk, Vasyl Chornyy

Born 1997 in Hong Kong

Ethel Walker, full name: Dame Ethel Walker DBE ARA (9 June 1861 – 2 March 1951) was a Scottish painter of portraits, flower-pieces, sea-pieces and decorative compositions. Via W

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968) https://palianshow.wordpress.com/2025/06/09/meta-vaux-warrick-fuller/ Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (born Meta Vaux Warrick; June 9, 1877 – March 13, 1968) was an African-American artist who celebrated Afrocentric themes. At the fore of the Harlem Renaissance, Warrick was known for being a poet, painter, theater designer, and sculptor of the black American experience. At the turn of the 20th century, she achieved a reputation as the first black woman sculptor and was a well-known sculptor in Paris before returning to the United States.Through adopting a horror-based figural style and choosing to depict events of racial injustice, like the lynching of Mary Turner, Warrick used her platform to address the societal traumas of African Americans. Via W

May Stevens (1924-2019) https://palianshow.wordpress.com/2026/06/09/may-stevens/ May Stevens (June 9, 1924 – Dec 9, 2019) was an American feminist artist, political activist, educator, and writer. Via W