The magazine of the photo-essay
“A free, really high quality photo-essay magazine. Fabulous!”
Stephen Fry. British actor, writer and film maker
by Kieran Scott
Gloria Steinem once said, ‘You can’t empower women without listening to their
stories.’
This book was inspired by that belief and our subsequent idea to persuade two
hundred women in different parts of the world – whether they be rich or poor, black
or white, educated or uneducated, famous or unknown – to sit or stand in front of a
plain sheet of fabric and to be photographed and filmed while answering five
fundamental questions.
Our goal was not to make a book about just successful and powerful women; those
stories are important, but we wanted diversity, and above all, authenticity. Two
hundred ‘real women,’ with ‘real stories.’
We sought to cut away distractions and the visual context of each woman’s life and
to simply focus on her humanity. 200women
Amber Heard. Los Angeles. USA.
Ambika Lamsal. Patlekhet, Nepal.
Callie Khouri. Washington DC. USA.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Washington DC. USA.
Danielle Brooks. New York. USA.
Diane Wright Foley. Washington DC. USA.
Embeth Davidtz. Los Angeles. USA.
Gabourey Sidibe. Los Angeles. USA.
Gillian Anderson. London. England.
Hlubi Mboya Arnold. Johannesburg, South Africa.
Isabel Allende. San Francisco, USA.
Karen Walker. Auckland, New Zealand.
Manal Ali. Beirut, Lebanon.
Margaret Atwood. Toronto, Canada.
Marian Wright Edelman. Washington DC. USA.
Mithu Ghosh. Kolkata. India.