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Gerti Deutsch, A Childs View of the War. © Gerti Deutsch:Picture:Post:Hulton Archive: Getty Images

THE WOMEN photographers in this exhibition, which opens on February 28, were among the 80,000 refugees fleeing nazi-dominated Europe for Britain in the 1930s.

The majority, from Jewish backgrounds, were escaping anti-semitic and sometimes political persecution. Many were established practitioners who brought fresh, modernist perspectives that opened up and reshaped British photography in the decades that followed.  

Bunyard Ader Studio, Vogue fashion photograph © Estates of Anneli Bunyard and Inge Ader
Hella Katz, Bodenwieser dance group on Friedrich Kiesler's round stage, international exhibition of new theater technology, Wiener Konzerthaus, 1924 © Wien Museum
Portrait of Lore Lisbeth Waller, Studio, Leamington Spa, circa 1945 Courtesy of Anne Zahalka. Courtesy of Anne Zahalka
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