DIMBOLA Lodge has announced upcoming exhibitions for the autumn from world renowned female photographers.

Pioneering photographer Marilyn Stafford will feature in the Olympus Gallery from October 3.

Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1925, Marilyn’s early dreams were for a theatrical vocation.

Her photographic career was accidently launched in 1948 in New York where she had gone to find work on the Broadway stage.

She was asked to photograph Albert Einstein by friends who were making a film about him.

Stafford shot to international acclaim after her work documenting Algerian refugees in Tunisia famously made the front page of The Observer in 1958, bringing their plight to world attention.

She said: “Photographs are visible to us everywhere we go. Some of mine were taken as newspaper or magazine assignments, some of my pictures are street scenes captured in a passing moment, some were taken for projects never completed.

"All of them are dear old friends who I would like you to meet."

The show will run from Saturday October 3 to Sunday December 31 in the Olympus Gallery.

Running concurrently in the nearby Charles Hay Cameron gallery will be a showcase of Polaroid originals from London based photographer and university lecturer, Andrea Muendelein.

Muendelein’s early Polaroid work explores her engagement with portraiture and painting during her time at Central Saint Martins College of Art between 2003 and 2005.

Presented as a series of two to five photographs, they show the way in which the photographer looks from various angles and uses frames to examine the relation between body and space.

To find out more about these upcoming exhibitions visit www.dimbola.co.uk