![]() The art world of photography is now more international than ever before, and the museum acquires a growing body of work from diaspora artists and those working in the Global South. Recent acquisitions include major works by Joana Choumali, Tereza Zelenkova, Dafna Talmor, Vera Lutter, Valérie Belin, Rinko Kawauchi, and Poulomi Basu. Dikshit developed the software that powered PartyGaming and helped Parasol and DeLeon in launching the brand. India's Anurag Dikshit finished 618th with a net worth of 1.6 billion. One online gambling entrepreneur managed to stay on the Forbes list. In terms of contemporary photography, the museum holds wonderful examples of work by Sally Mann, Susan Meiselas, Simone Nieweg, Ingrid Pollard, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, Newsha Tavakolian, Lorna Simpson, Jo Spence, and Maud Sulter to name only a few. Parasol and DeLeon were in the middle of the billionaire list in 2006, worth 1.8 billion each. The V&A’s fashion collections – traditionally a realm dominated by men photographers – include photographs by Genevieve Naylor, Lillian Bassman, Deborah Turbeville, Corinne Day, Cathleen Naundorf and Nontsikelelo Veleko. The V&A reorganised its photography holdings in the 1970s with women playing a stronger – if not yet fully equal – role in the collection’s development. A Fashion Allure II, lambda print from original polaroid by Cathleen Naundorf, 24 November 2012, printed 2016.
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