Dorothy Bohm

British photographer Dorothy Bohm (b. Israelit) was born in East Prussia to a Lithuanian Jewish family. In 1939 her parents sent her to England, where she studied photography at the Manchester College of Technology. She married Louis Bohm in 1945, opened her own portrait studio in 1946, and settled in North London in 1956. In the 1960s, Bohm turned from studio to street photography, visiting the Soviet Union to capture life in Moscow and Leningrad. In 1971, she cofounded the Photographers’ Gallery, the first gallery in Britain devoted solely to photography. Bohm later founded the Focus Gallery for Photography. She was recognized for her significant contributions to British photographic history with her appointment as Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 2009.