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Dorothy Bohm is considered to be one of the doyennes of British photography both through her own work and her role in the foundation of the Photographers' Gallery in London. She arrived in England in 1939, aged just 14 after waving goodbye to her parents and her baby sister on a train platform in Lithuania. As Europe became more and more dangerous for Jews, her parents sent her to safety. She wouldn't hear from them again for 20 years. In that time, she started taking photographs. Now nearly 94, the latest exhibition of her photographs has just opened at a gallery in the southern English town of Chichester. She told Julian Worricker that her interest in photography was first sparked by her father's camera. (Image: Part of a self-portrait on display at the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester. Credit: Dorothy Bohm)
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