Every day of the year, women are achieving great things with a camera in hand. Women’s History Month is a great time to celebrate the strong, vibrant, outstanding women in your life. We, at Sony Alpha are honored to have such a fantastic group of women in our Sony Artisan Of Imagery and Sony Alpha Imaging Collective programs. Covering a wide array of subject matters, these photographers and filmmakers are making waves in the industry. Join us in celebrating these women, learn more about their work and follow them on Instagram.

We, at Sony Alpha are honored to have such a fantastic group of women ambassadors. Covering a wide array of subject matters, these photographers and filmmakers are making waves in the industry.

Amber Baird – @amberbaird

Amber Baird is a Sony Artisan of Imagery, filmmaker and educator. She and her husband make up the award-winning wedding photography team Eyenamics, creating stunning wedding films and improving the industry through advanced education. She’s also a breast cancer survivor and she shares her story to inspire and educate others, you can see that work HERE.

Endia Beal – @endiabeal

Sony Artisan Endia Beal is an artist, speaker, educator and author. She works to reveal the often overlooked experiences unique to people of color through her photography and videography. Her work merges fine art with social justice. Her first book, “Performance Review,” is now in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Watson Library Collection (The Met).

Nancy Borowick – @nancyborowick

Sony Artisan Nancy Borowick is an internationally renowned photographer, author, teacher and speaker. Her work has been exhibited in over 100 cities world-wide and she has worked regularly with the New York Times since 2013. Her work tells the intimate stories of people and places from every corner of the globe. Learn from Borowick and how to tell stories in your own backyard HERE.

Tomayia Colvin, EdD – @tomayiacolvin

Sony Artisan Tomayia Colvin, EdD creates educational platforms and safe spaces for Black and photographers of color. She’s the founder of Tomayia Colvin Education, an online learning platform providing photographers of color an opportunity to gain momentum and experience in education and speaking. She’s also the founder of The Photo Cookout, which is the first photography conference for Black photographers. Follow her on Instagram to see more of her work and for more information on the courses she provides to help you start and grow your photography business.

Zabrina Deng – @zabrinaxyz

Zabrina Deng is a Sony Artisan who has traveled the world as a wedding and engagement photographer. She is a master photographer for Wedding and Portrait Photographers International (WPPI) and has earned many awards from WPPI. Her work has been published in magazines like Vanity Fair, Town & Country, Cosmopolitan and more. Follow her Instagram to see how captures stunning work, like the shots below featuring the work of fashion designer, Colleen Quen.

Katrin Eismann – @katrin_eismann

Sony Artisan Katrin Eismann is an internationally respected artist, teacher, and author specializing in digital photography, imaging software, and the impact of emerging technologies upon professional photographers, artists, and educators. She’s currently an Adobe Product Manager and you can learn more from her and how she creates her images in her Lightroom Academy. She has a talent for composing everyday scenes into art which you’ll quickly discover on her Instagram account.

Sara France – @sarafrance

Sony Artisan Sara France is a renowned international-award-winning photographer, entrepreneur and speaker. Not only does she create incredible professional wedding photography, she’s also passionate about building businesses that help women succeed by providing photography and entrepreneurship resources. We love the post below, with the sweetest moments of a happy couple on their big day. France is talented at capturing authentic moments.

Jean Fruth – @jeanfruthimages

Sony Artisan Jean Fruth is a traveling photographer for La Vida Sports and is known for her visual storytelling of baseball, from grassroots to the pros around the globe. Her work has a way of connecting baseball with the world at large, and she recently released her new book, Grassroots Baseball: Route 66, which documents baseball and Americana along Route 66, which you can purchase here. Fruth is well-regarded in the sports photography world for her great attitude and incredible storytelling ability.

Caroline Jensen – @carolinej

Caroline Jensen is a Sony Artisan and creative artist. Not only does she create all kinds of beautiful photographic art, she’s also a photo instructor with a passion for guiding other people to their own versions of success. She views photography as therapeutic and making that connection between photography and stress relief is a big part of her work. If you’re a fan of florals, tiny creatures, or just spending time in nature, Jensen’s work will speak to you!

Me Ra Koh – @merakoh

Portrait photographer and Sony Artisan Me Ra Koh is a sought after keynote speaker and author. She’s passionate about building stronger families through her portraiture, and is a master storyteller who has been featured on Oprah, Live With Kelly & Ryan, and as host of Capture the Story with Me Ra Koh on Disney. Follow her on Instagram to see the beautiful connections formed through her portrait images, like the joyful shoot below, where she used the Sony Alpha 1.

Marvi Lacar – @marvilacar

Sony Artisan Marvi Lacar is a photographer and filmmaker with the goal to emotionally connect with her audience using creative visual language. She’s covered domestic and international news and feature stories for major print publications as an editorial photographer, and has created pieces for many major brands as a director. She’s the founder of @1in20, an organization aiming to destigmatize and educate on all issues of mental health. Learn more about Marvi’s latest work by following her on Instagram.

Kesha Lambert – @keshalambert

Sony Artisan Kesha Lambert is an international wedding and portrait photographer based in New York. She’s a creative who’s known to push the limits, and her impressive work has appeared on the pages and covers of leading publications including Inside Weddings, Brides Magazine, Munaluchi Bride and The New York Times. She not only takes photographs of couples big day, but she knows how to make them look glam, like in the series of images below.

Cristina Mittermeier – @mitty

Sony Artisan Cristina Mittermeier is one of the most influential conservation photographers in the world. She travels the globe, taking photographs to help tell stories that will inspire others to protect the environment. She’s the co-founder of SeaLegacy, a collective of some of the most experienced and renowned photographers, filmmakers, and storytellers working on behalf of our oceans. She is a force for conservation and has forged a path for many to follow. Check out her Instagram and learn more about SeaLegacy’s work on the Sony Alpha Youtube Channel.

Taylor Rees – @taylorfreesolo

Sony Artisan Taylor Rees is a documentary filmmaker and photojournalist. Her work focuses on bringing new perspectives and deeper public understanding to the complexities of issues like climate change, human rights and more. She’s recently been sharing her thoughts for the people of Ukraine and Russia, where she has visited in the past and has connected with many of the people there. Follow her to learn more about the current human and environmental issues in the world through captivating visual storytelling.

Brooke Shaden – @brookeshaden

Brooke Shaden is a self-portrait artist, speaker and Sony Artisan. For her work, Shaden aims to find beauty in darkness and radical self reflection. She explores topics such as death and grief and is fascinated by how much of ourselves we can discover within the darkness. Her images feel like a dark fairy-tale. And we absolutely love seeing her creation process, like in the video below! 

Monica Sigmon – @monicasigmon

Monica Sigmon is a professional portrait photographer, speaker and Sony Artisan. She speaks to professional photographers around the country about building your brand and running a luxury studio with authenticity, and her passion for it will energize any photographer. She has her own commercial photography and portrait studio @sigmontaylor where she makes iconic portraits that serve as statement pieces.

Allison Anderson – @photoallison

Allison Anderson is a travel and lifestyle photographer, vlogger, and member of the Alpha Collective. She creates and shares videos of her travels, mainly focusing on solo travel, that encourage her viewers to book the trip, join the club, or do whatever they need to do to increase the saturation of their entire life. She is a major inspiration for many women who are interested in solo traveling but unsure of how to do it or where to start. 

Ashley Brehm – @ashleyinwanderland

Alpha Collective member Ashley Brehm is a photographer focusing on boudoir, portraits, and weddings/elopements. She’s drawn to darker images, making them look romantic and moody yet still stunning. Her Instagram account is filled with her work that captures real moments with real people making lifelong memories. For example, the images below of an engagement have a darker color pallet to them, while still showcasing the joy and excitement of the couple. 

Michelle Chu – @michutravel

Michelle Chu is a travel content creator and member of the Alpha Collective. She’s traveled to 80 countries and creates content for luxury travel brands that show the beauty of the places she’s visiting. She’s traveled to the Maldives many times and works with the locals to help book luxury vacations for others. 

Crissi Beth Cooper – @crissibeth

Alpha Collective member Crissi Beth Cooper is a street and travel photographer. She’s based in New York City and that’s where many of her photographs are taken, but she’s also lived in several countries and traveled to over 40 of them, so she’s taken photos all around the world which you’ll see on her Instagram. Her work often includes elements of symmetry, leading lines, vanishing points, architecture and creative environmental portraits of the human form. We love the shot below made on the Sony Xperia. 

Gina Danza – @wildgina

Gina Danza is a photographer and member of the Alpha Collective who specializes in intimate landscapes. She has a passion for sharing her intuitive art to make people feel something. She is the top-selling Black landscape photographer and celebrates other Black artists on her Instagram too. Follow her for a closer connection with nature in your feed. 

Kathryn Dyer – @kathryn_dyer

Kathryn Dyer is a landscape photographer and member of the Alpha Collective. She captures beautiful landscape scenes which she often posts with quotes relevant to the photo to really make you think. She’s a lover of life and it shines through in her stunning landscape photography. You can learn more about Kathryn Dyer and her journey as a cancer survivor in this episode of Behind The Lens from Adorama.

Paola Franqui – @monaris_

Paola Franqui is a street photographer, Lightroom ambassador, and member of the Alpha Collective. Franqui’s imagery provides a captivating glimpse at those ordinary moments in time by showing the complexity and diversity of humans interacting with the world. Storytelling is a key element she emphasizes through her work, and she recently debuted her first photography book Mementos that you can order here. We love how the tone and fleeting moments of her work make the images feel cinematic, the images below are a great example of that. 

Lizzy Gadd – @elizabethgadd

Lizzy Gadd is a self-portrait artist and member of the Alpha Collective. A lover of nature, animals, and adventure, Gadd’s imagery puts you into otherworldly scenes with them all. Dreamy poses in front of magical landscapes make her Instagram a pleasure to follow. Additionally, she posts Instagram Reels that are just a dreamy peaceful moment to experience. The video below is her most recent calming Reel, check it out and give her a follow!

Renee Hahnel – @reneeroaming

Renee Hahnel is an Australian based in Seattle and works as a full-time travel photographer and blogger. She's also an Alpha Collective member, and her Instagram account features some of the most beautiful natural scenes in the world. She is known for epic adventures and outstanding colors in her imagery. Her account will make you want to start traveling full time. When out on an adventure, Hahnel typically shoots with her Sony Alpha 1. 

Jessica Hirsch – @cheatdayeats

Alpha Collective member Jessica Hirsch is the photographer behind her @cheatdayeats lifestyle brand and digital production company. She creates highly visual and dynamic images and videos of dishes from various restaurants, typically posting them with recipes on Instagram so you can recreate the delicious dish yourself. We are already halfway out the door to purchase the ingredients for this mouthwatering Lemon Alfredo pasta bake with Fusilli Capri!

Tiffany Nguyen – @tiffpenguin

Alpha Collective member Tiffany Nguyen is a dentist and adventure travel photographer. Nguyen’s passion for discovering new places and immersing herself in unfamiliar cultures is what fuels her travel, adventure, landscape, and lifestyle photography. She has a talent for creating stunning images that showcase the grandeur of a place.

Ashley Noel – @nyroamer

Ashley Noel is a hobbyist photographer and member of the Alpha Collective. She lives in the photographer’s paradise of New York City which she beautifully captures, but her passion for traveling and capturing new places is really what drives her photography. Follow her Instagram for more images from the Big Apple like in her post below, as well as visually compelling travel photography from around the globe.

Ananya Ray – @ananya.ray

Ananya Ray is a travel content creator and member of the Alpha Collective. She jet-sets around the world, showcasing her travel diary on Instagram. From elegant restaurants in Paris to flowing waterfalls in Iceland, she captures it all in dynamic videos that she shares with her followers. Look at the frozen bubbles she photographed in the shot below!

Sapna Reddy – @sapnareddy

Sapna Reddy of the Alpha Collective splits her time between being a radiologist and a photographer. She says, “As a radiologist I analyze images in an attempt to achieve cure. As a photographer I aspire to generate images that help to heal the mind.” Her photography does just that, as each image is a full immersion into the nature that surrounds us. She travels to beautiful natural places around the world and shares her photography as well as behind the scenes videos on Instagram. Learn more about registering for her workshops or purchasing her prints here

Rachel Jones Ross – @rachel_jones_ross

Rachel Jones Ross is a landscape and astrophotographer based in the Canadian Rockies. The Alpha Collective member has a ton of experience hiking out into the mountains to capture spectacular images of the terrain and surrounding landscape. Known for landscapes with stunning light or nighttime shots, with a scene under a blanket of stars, Ross is a must-follow on Instagram. 

Jessica Santos – @missjessbess

Jessica Santos of the Alpha Collective calls herself a wanderer at heart. She adventures throughout the West, capturing landscape and astrophotography that put the vibrant colors of the day and starry glow of the night in the desert on display. She’s a believer in #CommunityOverCompetition, and she’s teaming up with other photographers in the industry for workshops which you can learn more about at oneloveart.co. 

Kristen Sarah – @hopscotchtheglobe

Alpha Collective member Kristen Sarah is a travel content creator who documents and shares her travel adventures on her YouTube Channel and across social media. Her Instagram account is full of information and tips for traveling! From bidding on a seat upgrade to using a map without wifi or data, Kristen’s Instagram account is a hub for travel education. 

Charly Savely – @charlysavely

Charly Savely is a full time photographer and member of the Alpha Collective. Her work focuses on adventure, travel, wildlife, and conservation photography. She calls Alaska home and is no stranger to heading out in extreme weather to photograph the outdoors. She’s a love of animals and her photography gives a face-to-face look at different wildlife, providing an up-close view that connects you with the animal. 

Autumn Schrock – @autpops

Alpha Collective member Autumn Shrock is a full time photographer and designer specializing in outdoor lifestyle, travel, and landscape photography, as well as visual, motion and UI design. She has a passion for all things outdoors and collaborates with brands around the world to bring ideas to life through visual storytelling. We have been loving the recent work she’s been sharing from Norway, images made with the Sony Alpha 7R V. 

Cath Simard – @cathsimard

Alpha Collective member Cath Simard is a photographer, composite artist, and workshop leader. She creates beautiful astro-landscape composites, often capturing the colors of the northern lights or glow of the Milky Way. She’s also in the NFT space, and you can learn more about that, sign up for her workshops and see more of her work here. It’s always exciting to see what Simard is going to create next!

Erin Sullivan – @erinoutdoors

Alpha Collective member Erin Sullivan is a travel content creator learning and sharing stories of the places she visits. Her travel photography puts the true beauty of nature on display, and at the start of the pandemic she began creating landscape scenes using miniatures and other items from home. Her work in this realm has since taken off, and she’s partnered with many brands to create videos of this style with them. She shares information of what it’s like to be a working photographer, tips on the basics of photography, and just fascinating behind the scenes posts. In the video below, she’s discussing the benefits of the Sony 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 G Master lens! 

Shauna Wade – @so.shauna

Shauna Wade is a travel, lifestyle and street photographer and a member of the Alpha Collective. She captures seemingly normal scenes on the streets and on her travels in an artistic way that makes them stand out. She founded @moodygrams and @moodyports, photography communities sharing the work of moody, artistic and emotive photography. Learn more at moodygrams.net.