Dorothy Bohm, a photographer whose work fulfilled her “deep need,” she said, “to stop things from disappearing,” died on March 15 at a care facility in Northwest London. She was 98.

She was a teenager in Lithuania when her father gave her a Leica as she boarded a train to flee the Nazis. She studied photography in Manchester, England, and became a portrait photographer, switching later to black-and-white landscapes and street photographs that documented life in cities like London and Paris, also colorful abstract compositions and still lifes.

Her work has appeared in more than a dozen books and more than two dozen exhibitions. In 1971, she became associate director of the Photographers’ Gallery, one of London’s first galleries devoted solely to photography. For 15 years, she nurtured up-and-coming photographers. She produced a number of books, and was the subject of two documentaries.