Who founded the first all-woman photo agency?

Martin Parr talks photography with Maggie Murray and Brenda Prince in this Sofa Session, touching on Format photographic agency and the miners strike.
Brenda and Maggie were founding members of Format in 1983, the first all-woman photographic agency.
They discuss their experience as photojournalists and Brenda's photographic practice documenting women who undertake non-traditional work roles, as well as her work highlighting the role women played during the 1984 miners' strike.
This Sofa Session has been produced to coincide with the MPF exhibition ONE YEAR! Photographs from the miners’ strike 1984 - 85, on display 18 JAN to 31 MAR 2024.
Filmed and edited by Alexander Parkyn-Smith.

[@tonydesarzec907]

Marvellous interview. Thank you.

[@MartinParrFDN]

Our pleasure! Thank you for taking the time to comment

[@_pedro_vidal]

What a wonderfull people. So much to learn in 20min, so many doors opened. Thank you!

[@MartinParrFDN]

Thank you for commenting @_pedro_vidal. Glad that you were able to learn lots from the film

[@SlavaVeres]

Mr. Parr, thanks for another wonderful video ❤ Greetings from Canada 🇨🇦✌️🇺🇦

[@MartinParrFDN]

Thank you for the greetings from Canada, we look forward to welcoming you to the Foundation in future and keep watching from Canada in the meantime!

[@blackcygnus3177]

Again a tremendous video!! Thanks so much. A slow burner of an interview, Martin is excellent as usual, Maggie and Brenda became more and more engaged as the sofa session progressed. Love it!!

[@MartinParrFDN]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. We appreciate your dedication to the channel and following our videos - keep watching and look forward to hearing what you think of our future sofa sessions

[@peteradams408]

Today's PC, it was a Man.