Photographic artist, born in London, who in 1974 established, with the photographer Terry Dennett, the independent and educational Photography Workshop Ltd which continued until her death. The Workshop instigated The Hackney Flashers Collective (see separate entry), membership of which included Spence. She was diagnosed with cancer in 1982 and began to explore photography as a means of visual therapy and as an alternative to conventional drug treatment. The History Lesson, 1982, and Remodelling Medical History, 1982–90, were projects that developed the ideas of Phototherapy, a non-institutional form of therapy designed to be practised by non-professionals to manage the emotional aspects of cancer. They were included in Protest & Survive, at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, 2000, drawn from the London-based Jo Spence Archive, which Dennett continued to manage.