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100 Contemporary Women Street Photographers Redefining the Genre By Miss Rosen on March 7, 2021 Gulnara Samoilova, ‘Cloud Eaters’, 2018 © Gulnara Samoilova Birka Wiedmaier, ‘Untitled’, 2019 © Birka Wiedmaier Growing up in Ufa, the capital of the republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, Gulnara Samoilova fell in love with photography at the age of 15, and quickly discovered it was a means to escape the extremely patriarchal society in which she had been raised. She arrived in the United States in 1992, where she worked at the Associated Press, going on to win first prize in the World Press Photo competition for a photograph she made on September 11. The trauma of that day affected Samilova for years. She left photojournalism, opening a commercial wedding studio, which she eventually closed when she realized that making money was simply not enough for her soul. By 2015, she reached a crossroads, knowing she had to return to make art, but she wasn’t sure how she would proceed

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