Image © Karin van de Wiel
I am a Norwich-based artist and researcher working with digital and analogue photography; archives, vernacular photographs and text. I make work about being a photographer, women’s lives, care and family legacy.
My practice is process- and relationship-oriented, and informed by my love of photographic history. I run my own darkroom, where I work with a range of early and alternative techniques, including cameraless photography; large format and pinhole portraiture. I also research gender and disability in nineteenth-century archives, and write about photography’s relationship to the subconscious and the supernatural.
My practice is care work, and I believe that photography can help us to mediate relationships with ourselves, each other, and the wider world. I deliver workshops which are grounded in this approach, and write and talk about how we can adopt more caring approaches to photographic historiography.
I am also the creator of the artist/carer manifesto, an open resource for artists who provide unpaid care for someone they love.
I work to commission across the Eastern region, making digital and analogue portraits, and photographing weddings and other events.
I also have fifteen years’ experience as an access support worker for disabled and neurodivergent artists, and work with Decode, an organisation that supports creative professionals through the Access to Work process.
If you have a project you’d like to discuss please do get in touch.