«Frustration» Petticoat Lane, London, 1948

Grace Robertson is one of the most significant women photojournalists. At the beginning of her career in the 1950s, she used the pseudonym Dick Muir. Robertson's father, journalist and broadcaster Fyfe Robertson, gave her a second-hand camera in 1949 and the following year she had a photo story about her sister doing her homework published in Picture Post. Over the next few years she had several photo stories published in the magazine including Sheep Shearing in Wales (1951), Tate Gallery (1952), Mother's Day Off (1954) and Childbirth (1955). Robertson was appointed an OBE in 1999. She was married to the Picture Post photographer Thurston Hopkins (1913-2014). As well as photojournalism for magazines such as Life Magazine, Robertson worked in advertising.