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Tara Wray

My work is rooted in documentary surrealism. I'm drawn to intense natural light, small details, and use colour to evoke mood, atmosphere, and emotion. I'm compelled to document the mundane and absurd aspects of life, and animals, especially dogs.

Graeme Bell26th November 2018

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Ellie Ramsden

Grime began as a makeshift music style, blending the eclectic sounds of London's Afro-Caribbean community. Borne out of an amalgamation of various music genres, from reggae, dancehall, bashment, ragga and dub, to garage and drum and bass, grime has made its way from humble beginnings to a global phenomenon over the past…

Graeme Bell22nd November 2018

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Emily Andersen

Emily Andersen has been making photographic portraits of the international avant-garde since graduating from the Royal College of Art in the early 1980s. Having started out by finding her way into some pretty cool-sounding private parties in London and New York, she began convincing artists and musicians to pose for her –…

PlanetHeroines11th October 2018

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#209 Women

#209 Women is the brainchild of Hilary Wood and has been created to mark 100 years since some women achieved the right to vote. The entire contemporary art collection at the Palace of Westminster is being replaced with new photos of 209 women MPs, made exclusively by women photographers, for an exhibition…

PlanetHeroines5th October 2018

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Marysa Dowling

Marysa’s photographic practice is rooted within portraiture and concerned with human behaviour, identity, communication, exchange and interaction. Participation and collaborative possibilities are vital to her process.

PlanetHeroines2nd October 2018

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Alison Baskerville

Alison Baskerville is a British documentary photographer based in the UK. A recent fellow with the International Women's Media Foundation and military veteran she has explored and produced work in Afghanistan, Gaza, Mali and Somaliland.

PlanetHeroines26th September 2018

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First Women

Anita Corbin has produced a collection of 100 portraits for her ‘First Women’ project. Capturing women in the UK who were the ‘first’ in their field of achievement and documenting this new generation of women who are changing the world of equality.

Graeme Bell25th September 2018

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The Silent Dialogue

Elena Helfrecht was born in Germany and is based in London. In 2014 she graduated in Art History and Book Science at Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen and is enrolled in the Master’s Programme of Photography at the Royal College of Art from 2017 to 2019.

Graeme Bell20th September 2018

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Anything is Possible

“My images are intimate, about issues and citizens I deeply care about. I believe photographs may not be capable of doing the moral work for us, but they can trigger the process of social consciousness.”

Graeme Bell13th September 2018

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Nancy Sumner

Through her phone, Nancy captures scenes of beauty and the everyday lives of her children and grandchildren that she wouldn’t otherwise be able to see with the limits of her naked eye.