From the Women of Photography website:
“In celebration of International Women’s Day, 8 March 2026, and building on the success of our 2025 conference-a-thon, we invited scholars, practitioners, and enthusiasts to submit abstracts for participation in a free, online, global, 24-hour symposium dedicated to celebrating the contributions of women to the medium of photography from photography’s announcement in 1839 to now. This unique free event featuring 72 speakers aims to highlight the diverse and impactful work of women and female-identifying photographers, as well as those working with photography, across all countries, continents, cultures, and time zones, without a penny spent on travel or registration.”
Link to the Women of Photography website: https://womenofphoto.com/
Link to free registration for the 24 hour Conference-A-Thon: https://tamu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ypAanQ2uQQurrTxMOjW60A#/ For those who register, the Women of Photography Conference-A-Thon videos will be available for a short time after the event.
Please see this page for the full schedule, and please check out and support the other presentations.
At 12.32pm GMT (tech pixies willing), I will be very proudly presenting the work and telling the stories of three of our British Victorian stereoscopic sisters in ‘Unexpectedly Unearthing Three Victorian Female Stereoscopic Photographers’, all rediscovered by chance over the last six years in both my professional role and personal enthusiasm.
The three female stereoscopic (3-D) photographers are: Eliza Allen (1816-1900), Manchester, Elizabeth Higgins, (1828-1899), Stamford, Lincolnshire, and Harriet Agnes Sampson (1831-1915), London.
The presentation will include parallel-view format stereoscopic (3-D) images, which can be free-viewed or viewed with a stereoscope, depending on the size of the screen you’re using. If you need any help with viewing the images in 3-D, please see this post. Viewing them in 3-D is preferable, but not essential to enjoy the presentation.
Even since putting together this presentation and submitting it, things move fast with the Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy’s research, and in the Heritage Sector, and BMAS could make another presentation of female stereoscopic photographers who have been rediscovered! Also, and very exciting for me personally, after I recently enquired again about accessing the album assembled by local mayor Henry Simpson, which was in Stamford Museum’s collections, and which led me to confirming the identity of Elizabeth Higgins as a stereoscopic photographer thanks to local historian Jane Craig Tyler’s prompts through an article on this Blog, it is said to have prompted for the local Town Hall to request for it to be digitised, so Elizabeth’s CDV work, along with other local photographers, can hopefully be enjoyed more widely!
I can’t thank Dr. Kris Belden-Adams, Dr. Rose Teanby and the rest of the Women of Photography team enough for BMAS and I to have this opportunity to very publicly celebrate and fly the flag for the little-known stereoscopic work of these women photographers, two professional and one amateur, each of whom we are immensely proud of.
Title image: Cropped from a stereoscopic photograph by Elizabeth Higgins, Maiden Lane, Stamford, showing local people near St. Peter’s Callis, All Saint’s St, Stamford, 1859, collection of Rebecca Sharpe.
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