Abbud Karimeh also known as the ‘Lady Photographer’,was a Palestinian professional photographer and artist who lived and worked in Lebanon and Palestine in the first half of the twentieth century. It was in Bethlehem in 1913 that she first began to take an interest in photography, after receiving a camera from her father as a gift for her seventeenth birthday. Her first photos are of family, friends, and the landscape in Bethlehem and her first signed picture is dated October 1919. She set up a home studio, earning money by taking photos of women and children, weddings, and other ceremonies. She also took numerous photos of public spaces in Haifa, Nazareth, Bethlehem, and Tiberias.