is a New York Photographer whose internationally known work focuses primarily on women and girls whose outsider status places them within larger social struggles. She has had photos in U. S. News and World Report, The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, The London Independent Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Paris Match, The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, Art In America and others.

Over the past 18 years, Paula Allen has been photographing international events: The Birth of Solidarity in Poland (1981), The European Nuclear Disarmament Movement (1982), The Dismantling of the Berlin Wall (1989), and the Defeat of Chilean Dictator General Pinochet (1989).

As a documentary photographer, Paula Allen’s dedication has been to record with her photos and also her words, the histories of women.