Maggie Murray

Maggie Murray (born 1942) is a British photojournalist and documentary photographer. In 1983, she was a co-founder of the Format photographic agency. Murray's work is held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery and in the Maggie Murray Archive at Bishopsgate Institute, London.

Life and work Murray studied photography at Regent Street Polytechnic, London. In the 1970s, she was a member of the Hackney Flashers, a socialist-feminist collective of women that created agitprop. In 1983, Murray and Val Wilmer co-founded Format, the first women's photographic agency. Format aimed "both to raise the profile of female photographers and to tackle widespread preconceptions and prejudices". She travelled widely, with a focus on everyday life and work. Later, she particularly focused on the lives of women and other underrepresented groups. Women and Photography – Ways of Seeing and Being Seen, Photo Oxford Festival, Oxford, November 2020 Photographing Protest, Four Corners Gallery, London, 2022 Re/Sisters: a Lens on Gender and Ecology, Barbican Art Gallery, London, October 2023–January 2024 The 80s: Photographing Britain, Tate Britain, London, November 2024–May 2025

Collections Murray's work is held in the following permanent collections: Bishopsgate Institute, London (The Maggie Murray Archive)