Media:
Photophilanthropy Portfolio Uganda
Photophilanthropy Slums to the City
A Change is in the Air, hardback
NGOs/good causes I support with photography:
PENHA – Pastoralist and Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa
Born to be Beautiful – working Uganda, India Wenchen Ggongzhu Monastery, Nepal
Kitenge Africa, street kids from Kampala Tring Tornadoes
OTHER BUSINESS:
Dragonfly Communications, Vanessa is director of the company
The Dragonfly, art and creative blog, reviews, rants and rambles by Vanessa
Google+ Instagram PhotoAid Facebook Photography Page
HEADSHOTS : ToBeSeen, The Stage
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Exhibitions
1987 Lauderdale House, Highgate
1989-1998 Various exhibitions, University College London
2001-2009 Various regional group exhibitions Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Scotland, Manchester, Birmingham
2003 -2005 Dragonfly Arts Gallery and Fairs, Cambridgeshire, UK
2005 South Holland Open Art Exhibition, Spalding UK – Award winner, South Holland award for Photography
2006 Halesworth Gallery, Suffolk, UK
2006 South Holland Open Art Exhibition, Spalding, UK
2009 Cornerhouse, Manchester
2010 Menier Gallery, London, UK
2011 Inaugural London Photo Festival, Shoreditch, London UK – work showing London prints on metal, hand etched
2011 Thirsk Art Gallery, North Yorkshire, UK – work showing London prints on metal, hand etched
2012 One Love festival, Hyderabad, India – work showing British Gypsies
2012 Solo show, From Slums to the City, Mumbai, Upstairs Gallery, Hertfordshire, UK
2013 Deep Crucible, solo as part of Festival held at Henley River and Rowing Museum, UK
2013 Upstairs Gallery, Solo show, “From Slums to the City” documenting an NGOs work in Mumbai, India. Accompanying book.
2014 Two group shows Pixels of Identity and MORPHOS International art expo; Palazzo Albrizzi, Venice Italy for a month and a half
2014 Lloyd’s Art Group’s 2014 Summer exhibition, London; invited to exhibit with the Lloyds Bank artists for their three month annual show.
2014 The Strand Gallery, London, photo studies for the Master of Movement, Paul Trevillion (Roy of the Rovers artist)
2014 Representation by the Stephen Bartells Gallery – exhibition, agency and print sales
2015 Judge, Art Gemini Prize, London’s international art prize
2015, “Landscapes” International Exhibition, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece
2016 “A Change in the Air” solo exhibition of images taken from a project I documented the pastoralists in Uganda, held at Calumet, sponsored by FujiFilm. Accompanying book.
2017 Lead Photographer, ARGENTA Fine Art
2017 Creative Director, PhotoX Photography Prize
2017 Judge, Art Gemini Prize, London’s international art prize
2017 The Black Gallery, Tring, exhibiting and curating the photography
2017 “Beyond Words” supporting Grenfell Disaster, Faroe Road, London
2018 PhotoX, Creative Director
2018 Exhibit C, Upstairs Gallery, joint exhibition with artist Catherine Hay
2018 Nominated as one of 100 Heroines in Photography, Royal Photographic Society to celebrate 100 years of women’s suffrage
Various photodocumentaries
Nomads in Uganda
http://photophilanthropy.org/gallery-posts/ugandas-endangered-pastoralist-and-nomadic-communities/
Buy prints from the exhibition
Slums in Mumbai
http://photophilanthropy.org/gallery-posts/from-the-slums-to-the-city-mumbai/
Publications
2013 From the Slums to the City, Mumbai
2014 A Change in the Air, a journey with the nomads in Uganda documenting the changing lives of the pastoralists for international NGO, PENHA
2016 A WWI Ulysses, accompanying music by Richard Thompson
2016 Fire and Earth, documenting British Artisans Vol 1 Andrew Findlay, Blacksmith; Vol 2 Simon Howard, Stained Glass artist.
2019 Courage in Dust, charcoal portraits by Cuthbert Orde, of Fighter Command
Photojournalism and editorial in print
- Beyond Magazine, international travel magazine
- Venue arts magazine, Cambridgeshire
- Property Professional, including coverage of Battersea Power Station and Covent Garden Flower Market
- London printed newspaper TeamPlayer360 – 50,000 distribution
- Regional press (Manchester, Cambridgeshire, Herts)
- London-Art.net popular review blog
Sponsorship
2013 FujiFilm – cameras for project in Uganda, with former street kids in Kampala; camera trials when on assignment in Africa.
2013 Loxley Print – developing and printing for Kitenge Africa project
2012 Big Day Printing – printing and mounting for “Slums to the City” touring exhibition
2012 Aperture Books – Book Printing for “Slums to the City” exhibition
Various travel scholarships at university.
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