Brenda Prince


Brenda Prince is a British photographer who documented women's lives. She was a member of the Format photographic agency from 1983 to 2001. The Brenda Prince Archive is held at Bishopsgate Institute, London.

Life and work

Prince was born in Hackney, London. She worked as publicity officer for the British Film Institute for 7 years in her 20s. She took up photography in 1978 and from 1979 to 1982 studied Photographic Arts at the Polytechnic of Central London. In 1983, she joined Format, an agency that represented women photographers. During the 1984–1985 United Kingdom miners' strike, Prince spent 18 months covering the mining communities in Nottinghamshire from the miners wives' perspective. Later, she documented women's lives in the Soviet Union, Philippines, and Iraqi Kurdistan. Around 1993, she spent a year photographing women in various roles in the Church of England, highlighting their struggle to become ordained as priests. In 2001, she left Format, retiring from photography to become a psychotherapist.

Publications

Zines by Prince

Group exhibitions

Prince's work is held in the following permanent collections:
  • Bishopsgate Institute, London
  • National Portrait Gallery, London