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Dorothy Bohm is a photographer based in London, known for her portraiture, street photography, early adoption of colour, and photography of London and Paris; she is considered one of the doyennes of British photography.

Born in 1924 into a Jewish Lithuanian family in East Prussia Dorothy Bohm has spent her lifetime taking photographs and travelling the World. Bohm's fascination with people is evident in her work. Since 1984 she has worked purely in colour, capturing transient moments she encounters, and fulfilling her desire to record things in order to stop them from disappearing.