Photography projects
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Personal Work Journal features unique photography projects from around the world, and explores the passion projects of photographers, curators, artists and creatives.
Featured Photography Projects
Greg Turner
“The first conversation that I had with myself was, what do I want to say and what kind of photographer do I want to be?”
Greg Turner is a portrait photographer who works in a series of long term projects, lasting months or sometimes years.
His work is intensely personal seeking to reveal as much about himself as to scrutinise the subjects of his images.
Elinor Carucci
“There is a conflict between my sense of liberation – feminist me – and the roles and stereotypes that women are still subject to.”
Israeli American photographer Elinor Carucci has carved out a very successful fine art career in New York City.
Carucci’s latest book Midlife is an exquisitely intimate portrait of the photographer and her family.
Latest Personal Work
Harry Borden on Portraits, Personal Work & Integrity
Harry Borden on personal projects, portraiture, fatherhood, & why mystery is essential to powerful photography.Harry Borden is one of Britain’s most respected portrait photographers, known for his ability to reveal something elusive—mystery, intimacy,...
With her project Sick in Bed, Cheryl Newman creates personal meaning from found photographs
Cheryl Newman Sick in Bed: illness, ethics and the power of found photographyNAME Cheryl Newman JOB Photographer WEBSITE Cheryl Newman PROJECT Sick in bed Cheryl Newman is a photographic artist whose work explores illness, memory, and the ethics of looking, often...
Ayesha Jones’ The Backbone explores health, identity & belonging through intimate portraits & interviews with ten women living with scoliosis.
Ayesha Jones - The Backbone Mapping identity through a long‑term documentary projectNAME Ayesha Jones JOB Photographer WEBSITE Ayesha Jones PROJECT The Backbone Ayesha Jones is a UK based documentary photographer working at the intersection of health, identity and...
Portrait photographer Ruth Toda Nation’s new photobook asks, what do we leave behind?
NAME Ruth Toda-Nation JOB Documentary photographer PROJECT Our Lockdown Garden Published by Mindful Editions, £40 Recently we’ve interviewed several photographers who although in their 50s might still be considered emerging talents: people like Wendy Aldiss, Rosie...
Mohamed Hassan’s distinctive Welsh landscape photography has seen his work added to the collection of the National Museum of Wales
Name Mohamed Hassan Job currently studying for an MA Website Mohamed Hassan Project Witnessing WalesNew Landscape PhotographyMohamed Hassan is a portrait and landscape photographer who has been living in Wales for the past 13 years. His work is a compelling mixture of...
Documentary photographer Debby Besford finds community & personal connections at a model boat club.
NAME Debby Besford JOB Documentary photographer WEBSITE Debby Besford PROJECT The Great Yarmouth Model Boat ClubDebby Besford has been featured on Personal Work Journal before, with her charming and very personal photography project about the renovation of the...
Anna Fox shares images from 2 of her new photography projects & discusses collaborating with Karen Knorr
From The Village, 1991NAME Anna Fox JOB Photographer & Prof Photography WEBSITE Anna Fox PROJECT U.S. 1 & CabinetUsually when you ask a photographer to describe their practice you get a short, sometimes terse, answer but not with Anna Fox. As befits an...
With her portraits of autistic women, Rosie Barnes gives voice to an under represented community.
NAME Rosie Barnes JOB Documentary Photographer WEBSITE Rosie Barnes PROJECT No You're NotPortraits of autistic women Rosie Barnes is a documentary photographer who has a particular interest in what she terms disability/difference. She has produced work that looks at...
Wendy Aldiss My Father’s Things
NAME Wendy Aldiss JOB Documentary Photographer WEBSITE Wendy Aldiss PROJECT My Father's ThingsWendy Aldiss is a fine art and social documentary photographer who has a particular interest in environmental portraiture, and has she produced a body of work that explores...
By taking his street photography inside, Paul Harrison has created intriguing relationships between art & the real world.
NAME Paul Harrison JOB London Tour Guide WEBSITE Paul Harrison PROJECT National GalleryI first met Paul Harrison at a protest march that had brought part of central London to a standstill. He rushed up to me and asked if I knew where he could buy another SD card as...
Michael von Graffenried has made the Widelux his own, producing intimate & unsettling images of the ordinary
NAME Michael von Graffenried JOB Photojournalist WEBSITE Michael von Graffenried PROJECT Our TownMichael von Graffenried is a widely published and highly regarded Swiss photojournalist. Graffenried works in series of long-term documentary projects and his photography...
With Hen, Bex Day aims to give older transgender people a presence in 40 portraits of people over 40.
Dan NAME Bex day JOB Fashion & portrait photographer WEBSITE Bex Day PROJECT HenPortrait photographer Bex Day Bex Day is a photographer working in fashion and portraiture. Her client list is an impressive roster of magazines such as the New York Times and...
Olga Karlovac turned a bold personal style into a new career & a series of best selling photobooks.
NAME Olga Karlovac JOB Economist WEBSITE Olga Karlovac PROJECT before winterOlga Karlovac is a Croatian photographer based in Zagreb. Originally an economist, she turned to photography as a creative outlet when she became disillusioned with her professional working...
Working alone in the dark Melanie King exposes her film to the ancient light of the stars
NAME Melanie K King JOB Lecturer in Photography & PhD Researcher WEBSITE Melanie King PROJECT Ancient LightMelanie K King is currently working towards her practice based PhD at the Royal College of Art. The project she's sharing with Personal Work Journal is part...
Focusing on Hong Kong’s drag scene enables Kasper Forest to explore conflict at a local & personal level.
Siufung Law, LGBT+ advocate, life coach & bodybuilderNAME Kasper Forest JOB Photographer/Multi-media Artist WEBSITE Kasper Forest PROJECT Immediate SexualityLGBTQ portrait photography Kasper Forest describes himself as a multimedia artist, screen writer and...
Personal Work
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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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