1. Doreen Beryl Spooner
By Elise Z Davies

2. Who is she? Born in North London on 30th January 1928
Doreen was the first female staff photographer on Fleet Street for a national newspaper
Doreen's career spanned over 40 years
Photo of Doreen by the great Swedish Karl Gullers (One of her early mentors)

3. Born and BACKGROUND
Doreen was an only child to Len Spooner and Ada Spooner
Len Spooner was a picture editor for multiple newspapers
Ada Spooner was a traditional stay at home, house wife

4. HOW SHE STARTED OFF First Camera – Woolworths
Shadowed Swedish photographer Karl Guller
Her Father being a picture editor
Keystone Picture Agency

5. Her Career Started working for the Daily Mirror in 1949
Traveling with Bert Garai
Doreen learnt many things from her travels

6. WOrk life balance Balancing family and career
With raising a family she also had to care for mother
who had depression and her husband who was an alcoholic
Doreen with her 3 children and her husband

7. Her Style of Photography
Multi Styles and Subjects
Portrait
Fashion
Street
Natural looking

8. Influences
Robert Capa
Henri Cartier-Bresson

9. Testosterone Alley Male dominated industry
Work area smelt of smoke and sweat
Doreen was the only female which sometimes actually help get exclusive information

10. The Trail of the century
Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies
One of her most famous pieces
The golden shot

11. Music, music, music!
Blondie
Spandau Ballet
Leonard Bernstein

12. GETTING THE PICTURE Albert Einstein George Bernard Shaw
Capturing genius’s at home
Doreen won ‘British News Picture of the Year’
With her photography of George Bernard Shaw peering through his garden gate

13. Style icons
Vicki Hodge
Sophia Loren
Twiggy
Yves Saint Laurent

14. ROYAL FAMILY Worked with Queen Elizabeth before she was crowned
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Photographers Society
Duke of Winsor and Wallis Simpson

15. My favourite pieces

16. Camera Granny
Wrote a book in 2016 with help of a ghost writer Alan Clarke
The book was published by the Mirror books
Daughters influenced her decision to write it
Alan Clarke & Doreen Spooner

17. Why I choose her Extraordinary, Interesting and inspiring
Not just because she's a women although she was ground breaking in her field
Natural talent
Doreen covers many aspects and subjects in her photography

18. How she influenced today
More females began to take on bigger roles in the newspaper industry like her fellow colleague Marjorie Proops, and good friend and writer Audrey Whiting
Women can be successful in a male dominate environment
Marjorie Proops

19. Contrast between era’s
Camera’s
Digital era
How they devolvement film
Roles between male and female changed

20. Final Thoughts Doreen was talented, very well liked and respected
 She has defiantly inspired me
I hope she would think I portrayed the real Doreen Spooner as the extortionary photographer she is and that I have also projected her work in a respectful manner and given it the credit it deserves .