Tracy Marshall-Grant
About Tracy
Director of Northern Narratives
Tracy Marshall-Grant is an Arts Director, Curator & Producer specializing in the production of photography exhibitions, festivals, education, and archive projects. She was previously Deputy Director of the Centre for British Photography which houses the Hyman Collection and Director of Development for the Royal Photographic Society. She directed the inaugural Bristol Photo Festival and LOOK Photo Biennial 2019 in Liverpool. Tracy has also been Director of Development at Open Eye Gallery Liverpool and Executive Director at Belfast Exposed Gallery.
Tracy is also co-founder and Director of Northern Narratives, the non-venue-based photography production company specializing in archive exhibitions and long-term archive development projects. Amongst the productions within this she has developed a large international tour and publication of Martin Parr’s Irish work- currently touring museums and galleries in Ireland and America until 2023. She has worked with Marketa Luskacova, Jem Southam, Café Royal Books and RRB Publications on several archive books and exhibition productions. Tracy is co-curator and co-editor of the international touring exhibition and associated monograph Chris Killip: retrospective with The Photographers Gallery, London and Thames and Hudson publishers. She is also Director of Liverpool Photographer Ken Grant’s Archive.
Tracy is associate and guest lecturer on professional practice for the BA and MA photography courses at several universities in the UK. She is a selector on the Royal West Academy Photography Open, the Royal Photographic Society Women in Photography Bursary and a judge for a number of Awards including British Journal of Photography Portrait of Britain and Photo London Student Photography Award.