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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/how-women-photographers-have-changed-the-way-we-see-the-world

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The first time National Geographic published photographs by a woman was more than a century ago; Eliza Scidmore became a household name to readers in the early 1900s, producing 15 articles and some of the magazine’s earliest color photography, and was the first woman elected to the National Geographic Society’s board.

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Karla Gachet, born in Quito, Ecuador and based in Los Angeles, California, says she admires many women photographers including those who paved the way for the new generation but words shared by Steber during a workshop years ago have stuck: ‘If you want to be a good photographer read a lot, watch a lot of movies, travel… don't just look at photos. To be a good photographer you need to be an interesting human being.’

“I think that comes across in her photography and her personality,” Gachet says. “Her work on the Secret Garden of Lily LaPalma, [a collection of images intended to reveal personal hidden emotions] was so original, and it pushed her own boundaries.”

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Steber struggled to name just one woman photographer whose work she admires: It’s “like asking which of your sisters you love the most…There are so many.” Forced to pick one, she describes the images by Evgenia Arbugaeva as “soulful and painterly.”

“There is an elegance to her work. Time and again I go back to her photographs for inspiration,” Steber says. “She finds beauty wherever she goes, a kind of soft, quiet beauty that can make a few apples wrapped in a newspaper stunning.”

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As Jodi Cobb, who photographed her first story for us in 1975, eloquently put it: “Every woman who has photographed for National Geographic has left her mark on the magazine and the world in some way. That’s the power of photography: those marks are indelible, etched in our retinas and memories.”

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