Gulnara Lyabib Samoilova is a Tatar-born American photographer, author and the founder of Women Street Photographers. She works as a documentary and street photographer, and has also worked as a darkroom printer, photojournalist and photo editor. She lives in New York City and holds a certificate in creative practices from the International Center of Photography.
As an Associated Press photojournalist she photographed September 11, 2001. Those pictures won first prize in the World Press Photo competition and were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize by the AP. They are part of collections including the Museum of the City of New York, The New York Public Library, the New York Historical Society and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts.
Samoilova turned the Instagram feed @WomenStreetPhotographers into a platform for women photographers around the world, with a website, traveling exhibitions, an artist residency and a film series. Its book, Women Street Photographers, was published by Prestel in 2021. In 2018 she curated a group exhibition in New York with 75 women street photographers, and in 2022 she curated Sandra Cattaneo Adorno's solo shows in Venice and New York.
