Women have often captured their heritage and lineage using the medium of photo in its many forms to create a snapshot in time. These instant portrayals provided a vehicle to present a persona to the world. These female guises become layered over time as one generation informs and shapes the next. Although their presence sometimes becomes obscured in the push and pull of being a woman in a world that is sometimes confusing and bewildering in its insistence in containment and confinement of female to boxes. They are caught forever in photos both antique , analogue and digital with a strong and ever insistent female authority proclaiming, this too will pass.