French photographer Janine Niépce was one of the country’s first female photojournalists. A new exhibition of her photos, some of which are being shown for the first time, looks at the rise of the working woman against the backdrop of the women’s rights movement in the second half of the twentieth century.
When the female photographer Janine Niépce first turned up at the factory floor in the early 1950s to take photos of the workers, they were quick to ask for “Mr Niépce, the photographer”.
