The book aims to provide a little balance. It features the work of 100 women and nonbinary documentary photographers over the past half century.

We’re featuring a few of those photographers who work for Nat Geo. They include Luisa Dörr, who made the photo (above) of two Indigenous women in traditional clothing wrestling in Bolivia. “At first, I was fascinated by the skill,” she says. “But then I saw it went beyond the ring. They are fighting for their rights, for recognition, for equality.”

See Dörr’s work on the Bolivian wrestlers and on women skateboarders.

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Her work for Nat Geo has ranged from California’s female rodeo performers to a New York street where more than 300 languages are spoken.

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Margaret did choose, however, to be vulnerable with photographer and Nat Geo Explorer Erika Larsen.

“She told me part of her healing process had been making herself vulnerable and nothing had made her feel more comfortable with being vulnerable than allowing herself to be photographed topless,” Larsen writes for Nat Geo.

A feminist, writer, photographer, and explorer, Adams (pictured above) covered 40,000 miles in Latin America via canoe, foot, and train. She traversed Haiti on horseback. She was the first female journalist allowed to explore the French trenches during World War I.

“I’ve wondered why men have so absolutely monopolized the field of exploration. … I’ve never found my sex a hinderment,” Adams wrote.

This newsletter has been curated and edited by David Beard, Hannah Farrow, and Jen Tse. Amanda Williams-Bryant, Alisher Egamov, Rita Spinks, and Jeremy Brandt-Vorel also contributed this week. Special thanks this week to Women Photograph and to its first book. Thanks for reading!

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