members were an dekker, sally greenhill, gerda jager, liz heron, michael ann mullen, maggie murray, christine roche, jo spence and julia vellacott. in her history of women photographers in britain, val williams recounts that "the group's nine women members began to study the use of photography within the capitalist system and to present alternatives. they played a decisive part in establishing a context within which women workers from different cultural fields could work together in pursuit of a collective political aim".