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Link: On Being a Woman Photographer With Maggie Steber and Lynn Johnson | PROOF](http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2013/11/05/are-women-photographers-wired-differently-with-maggie-steber-and-lynn-johnson/)

Both photographers have experienced the sexist and patronizing manner of colleagues and bosses. Yet they have used those experiences to their advantage.

I sat down separately with Johnson and Steber to talk about being women in a traditionally male field and some of the advantages their gender has given them.