Karimeh Abbud, born in 1896, was also known as the Lady Photographer. She was a professional photographer and artist who lived and worked in Lebanon and Palestine in the first half of the twentieth century.

In 1896, her father As'ad Abbud, was serving as a lay pastor in Shefa-'Amr. Shortly thereafter, he joined the Lutheran church and the family moved with him as he took up a new post as a pastor in Beit Jala (1899-1905) and then Bethlehem, where he was later appointed the parish priest. Karimeh grew up spending most of her time in these towns, while also attending the Schmidt Girls School in Jerusalem.

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George Edward Anderson was born on 28th October, 1860 in Salt Lake City, Utah, and apprenticed as a teenager under renowned photographer Charles Roscoe Savage.  He was known for his portraiture and documentary photographs of early Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temples. He is also best known for his traveling tent studio, set up in small towns throughout central, eastern, and southern Utah that he used to document the lives of residents in the years 1884 to 1907.

Anderson established his photography studio in Salt Lake City with his brothers, Stanley and Adam. He established a studio in Manti, Utah in 1886 and moved his studio to Springville, Utah with his bride, Olive Lowry in 1888.

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William de Wiveleslie Abney was an English astronomer, chemist and photographer born in Derby, England on 24 July, 1843.

The son of Edward Abney, vicar of St Alkmund's Derby and owner of the Firs Estate, William attended Rossall School, the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and joined the Royal Engineers in 1861, with whom he served in India for several years. Thereafter, and to further his knowledge in photography, he became a chemical assistant at the Chatham School of Military Engineering.

Drawing influences from his father, who was an early photographic experimenter and his friend of Richard Keene, an early Derby photographer, Abney became a pioneer of several technical aspects of photography. Keene became a close friend of William and his brother Charles Edward Abney. Both the Abney sons subsequently became founder members of the Derby Photographic Society in June 1884. His endeavors in the chemistry of photography produced useful photographic products and also developments in astronomy. He wrote many books on photography that were considered standard texts at the time, although he was doubtful that his improvements would have a great impact on the subject. His introduction of silver gelatin citrochloride emulsions led to the mass marketing of printing-out paper. He was a prolific author, writing for both specialist practitioners and amateurs. It was Abney who was largely instrumental in establishing a photographic collection at the South Kensington Museum, later to become the Science Museum Collection and form the basis of the National Museum of Photography, Bradford.

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Born on 17th July, 1898, in Springfield, Ohio, Berenice Abbott was an American photographer best known for her black-and-white photography of New York City architecture and urban design of the 1930s. She attended the Ohio State University, but left in early 1918.

In 1918, she moved to Greenwich Village in New York, where she was 'adopted' by the anarchist Hippolyte Havel. She shared an apartment on Greenwich Avenue with several others, including the writer Djuna Barnes, philosopher Kenneth Burke, and literary critic Malcolm Cowley. She started her career with journalism, but soon became interested in theater and sculpture, perhaps because of her interaction with artists Eugene O'Neill, Man Ray and Sadakichi Hartmann.

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