ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the uses of photography by women within the Portuguese colonies of Angola and Mozambique during the colonial period, and will consider what part their images played in the production of a colonial imaginary. The aim of the chapter is to analyse the work of four women who travelled to Mozambique and Angola from 1909 to 1950, coincident with the consolidation of the Portuguese colonial empire. These women did not live in Angola and Mozambique but travelled to these territories for short periods of time and for different reasons: Hélène of Orléans (Mozambique, 1909); Dorothea Frances Bleek and Mary Pocock (Angola, 1925); and Helena Corrêa de Barros (Angola, 1950).
