has written more than 35 articles for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. The British Library Sound Archive contains 35 of Wilmer's interviews with black British musicians and women musicians in its Oral History of Jazz in Britain. Wilmer has amassed a collection of historic photos of black people in Britain, some of which have been on public display (including in Autograph ABP's 2014 exhibition Black Chronicles II at Rivington Place), and she is working on a project to research the lives of black British musicians, which she has been documenting for many years. Photography Wilmer is as important a photographer as she is a writer, having worked with hundreds of singers, jazz musicians and writers, and she has taken noted photographs of artists such as Langston Hughes, Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, and Duke Ellington. Her photographs were exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in the 1973 exhibition Jazz Seen: The Face of Black Music, and form part of the V&A's photographic collection. Her photographs are also held in the National Portrait Gallery collection. She has written about photography and interviewed practitioners including Eve Arnold, Anthony Barboza, Roy DeCarava, Terry Cryer, Milt Hinton, John Hopkins, Danny Lyon, Raissa Page (of Greenham Common fame), Coreen Simpson, Beuford Smith and James Van Der Zee. In the 1980s, Wilmer compiled and edited the "Evidence" issue of Ten.8 magazine devoted to the work of African-American photographers. Wilmer's work has often been used in conjunction with music albums, as in the digipak booklet for Honest Jon's London is the Place for Me no. 4 CD, which includes photographs by her that "are full of warmth and immediacy". With Maggie Murray, Wilmer founded Format, the first all-women photographers' agency in Britain, in 1983. In September 2013, while Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in Frith Street, Soho, was undergoing redecoration, a 12-metre-square hoarding was erected on the façade with a tribute to its eponymous founder in the form of a massive photograph by Wilmer of him smoking a cigarette outside the club, and one of his legendary one-liners: "I love this place, it's just like home, filthy and full of strangers." Wilmer's work was featured in the Esquire Cover Club, the London Jazz Festival's digital exhibition for 2020. Collections Photographic works by Wilmer are held by the Arts Council of Great Britain Collection; the National Portrait Gallery; Victoria and Albert Museum; Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris; Fotografiska