Photography projects
Personal photography projects are vital way for photographers to create work and explore new subjects or techniques.
We publish 6 – 8 new photo projects each month.
Personal Work Journal features the best photo projects from around the world, and explores the passion projects of photographers, curators, artists and creatives.
Latest Personal Work
Portrait photographer Amit Lennon turns everyday documents into a subtle barometor of mood & fears
NAME Amit Lennon JOB Art Colour Portrait Photographer WEBSITE Amit Lennon PROJECT 2pm Lockdown2pm Lockdown started as a compilation of the every day documenting the subtle ebb and flow of family life yet ended up a barometer of our changing moods, fears and lunch...
With her photobook, Midlife, art photographer Elinor Carucci presents a searingly personal view on aging and relationships.
Hair dye. 2016NAME Elinor Carucci JOB Art Photographer WEBSITE Elinor Carucci PROJECT MidlifeThere is a conflict between my sense of liberation – feminist me, strong and confident- and the roles and stereotypes that women are still subject to.Interview by Elizabeth...
With her zine, Sick, Pippa Healy turns a physical reaction to a terror attack into an examination of grief & trauma
NAME Pippa Healy JOB Artist WEBSITE Pippa Healy PROJECT SickSELF PUBLISHING PHOTOGRAPHY More from our month long feature on self publishing photobooks & zines, including new books from Homer Sykes & Brian Griffin.Pippa Healy is a London based artist whose work...
In Black Country Dada, Brian Griffin talks about shooting pop stars, surreal businessmen and majestic builders.
NAME Brian Griffin JOB Portrait & Commercial Photographer WEBSITE Brian Griffin PROJECT Black Country Dada "When I left home at 18 to go to college in Manchester, I said to my Mum, 'I'm going to be more famous than David Bailey.' It didn't work out that way."If...
Legendary documentary photographer Homer Sykes draws on his archive of colour work for his new book,
HOMER SYKES. Blackpool, Lancashire. 1980s. From My British Archive: Colour Works 1980's & 90's © Homer SykesNAME Homer Sykes JOB Documentary Photographer WEBSITE Homer Sykes PROJECT My British Archive: Colour Works the 1980s and 90s SELF PUBLISHING PHOTOGRAPHY...
Photobook publisher Simon Robinson, launched Fistful of Books after experimenting with his own zines.
The English Summer Season, Peter Dench © Fistful of Books NAME Simon Robinson JOB Photobook Publisher WEBSITE Fistful of Books Fistful of BooksSimon Robinson is the driving force behind Fistful of Books, a publisher of short run photo zines. I first met him at a...
For documentary landscape photographer Marc Wilson, self publishing has become a full time career.
NAME Marc Wilson JOB Documentary Landscape Photographer WEBSITE Marc Wilson PROJECT The Last Stand SELF PUBLISHING PHOTOGRAPHY More from our month long feature on self publishing photobooks & zines,including new books from Homer Sykes & Brian Griffin. As...
Aisha Ife drew on personal experience to produce a series of intimate portraits.
NAME Aisha Ife JOB Portrait & Product Photographer WEBSITE Aisha Ife PHOTO PROJECT The Skin Series "I want my images of people to feel like home and I like to capture my subjects being themselves and comfortable" Aisha Ife is a portrait and product photographer...
Shot in the high passes of the Himalayas, almost ruined by poor lab work and then left in a box for 10 years, Sebastien Tickner’s Road Workers finally sees the light.
NAME Sebastien Tickner JOB Documentary Photographer WEBSITE Sebastien & Louise PROJECT Road WorkersPhotography is so intertwined with my life that in many ways, it is my life. The camera gives me a reason to travel, to spend time or to sit and maybe spend an hour,...
For Lagos based photographer Andrew Esiebo, commissions often result in longer term personal work.
NAME Andrew Esiebo JOB Photographer WEBSITE Andrew Esiebo PROJECT Alter Gogo My photography is not about being commercially successful it’s about using photography to tell what I see: photography is my personal empowerment.Andre Esiebo is a Lagos...
Liz Rideal, Professor of Fine Art at The Slade, combines photography & video in her personal work.
Kerfuffle, 2004, 24x17m, scanachrome on vinyl from a photo-booth original, BBC commission for Broadcasting House. NAME Liz Rideal JOB Professor of Fine Art WEBSITE Liz Rideal My mantra is “Things will resolve themselves."Liz Rideal is an artist and writer, and...
For Nigerian photojournalist Nelly Ating, a deeply personal project has brought a new perspective to her conflict photography.
NAME Nelly Ating JOB Photographer WEBSITE Nelly Ating PROJECT Self Portrait I think my work is a deeply personal thing, it's not for everybody and I’ve come to terms with that. Nelly Ating is a Nigerian photographer and her work focuses on...
A personal project resulted in a string of commissions for photojournalist KC Nwakalor.
NAME KC Nwakalor JOB Photographer WEBSITE KC Nwakalor PROJECT Tales of the Oil Rich South Most of the clients who’ve hired me don’t even look at my commercial work, they look at my personal projects. KC Nwakalor is a photojournalist and...
Years of engagement with historical archives has led to a Smithsonian artist fellowship for Vesna Pavlović.
NAME Vesna Pavlovic JOB Associate Professor of Art, Vanderbilt University, Nashville WEBSITE Vesna Pavlovic PROJECT Stagecraft Vesna Pavlović is currently an Associate Professor of art at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Pavlović’s projects examine...
Mountain guide & photographer Steve Razzetti walked for 1000s of miles across the Himalayas getting to know the landscape and people.
NAME Steve Razzetti JOB Photographer & Mountain Guide WEBSITE Steve Razzetti PROJECT Pakistan Zindabad!All my work is just for me. I have done very little “commercial” work, and shoot only to satisfy my own personal eye. Steve Razzetti is a photographer and...
Photofusion co-founder Gina Glover has spent 4 decades uncovering & deciphering the playgrounds of war.
NAME Gina Glover JOB Photographer & co-founder of Photofusion Photography Centre WEBSITE Gina Glover PROJECT Playgrounds of WarI like to delve into any immediate concerns and allow the creative process to unfold without the constraints of time or delivery. We're...
Caroline Molloy, Programme Director at UCA Farnham, used a pop-up studio to create a new iconography of the Women of Walsall.
NAME Caroline Molloy JOB Course Leader UCA Farnham WEBSITE Caroline Molloy PROJECT Women of WalsallPersonal work is your research, it’s your voice. It is a reflection of the critical perspective with which you perceive and understand the world.Caroline Molloy is the...
A chance discovery in her family archive gave a new perspective to Debby Besford’s record of Great Yarmouth’s Venetian Waterways.
NAME Debby Besford JOB Documentary Photographer WEBSITE Debby Besford PROJECT The Venetian WaterwaysThe desire and drive to create new work is like being in a relationship with yourself, your camera and the world around you.Debby Besford is a freelance documentary...
A move to a new city prompted Zoe Hamill to explore the limits of photography to convey identity and sensation.
Bruise from an oak treeNAME Zoe Hamill JOB Freelance photographer/teacher WEBSITE Zoe Hamill PROJECT A Map Without WordsPhotographing the landscape that's been home to generations of her family helped Zoe to examine the connection she feels to the land.WHAT’S YOUR DAY...
Nicola Morley ventures into very personal territory to produce an intimate document of need and understanding.
NAME Nicola Morely JOB Portrait photographer WEBSITE Nicola Morley PROJECT A Glass of WaterIn the last 5 years I’ve moved countries, got divorced, fallen in love with photography and done an MA. Photography has been a way of making sense of all that. Nicola Morley is...
Portrait & cultural photographer Mark Alesky has used a period of isolation to produce a series of intimate still life images.
NAME Mark Alesky JOB Portrait, Fashion & Cultural Photographer WEBSITE Mark Alesky PROJECT Still Lifes My personal work is an on-going conversation with myself about the way I interpret the world around me. It forms a part of my archive, my visual language, my...
Personal Work
ALL GOOD WORK IS PERSONAL
Personal work is vital to all creatives. It’s where we get to try things out, follow an obsession or just have fun.
Or it’s the work of another artist, someone who inspires or shows the way.
Either way, good work is always personal.
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