I am a freelance photographer and visual artist currently based in London, UK. I use this blog as a place to show work-in-progress, images from recent commissions, exhibition details, and other random bits and bobs.

Please visit www.kateelliott.co.uk for more examples of my work, and www.kateelliottphotography.co.uk for my commercial photography website. I am also one half of artist collaboration KEEM.




Wednesday 19 November 2014

The modern-day Museum Photographers - Portraiture

During the six-week Creative Photography Course I am currently running at the V&A, the students are working as Museum Photographers (click here for the background to the project).

Throughout the course I will be posting a selection of their images on the V&A's blog culminating - in the final week - with a multi-layered 'portrait' of the Museum.

Last week, we explored the building itself (click here to see the images showcased on the V&A blog). This week, we have been looking at the inhabitants of the building: members of staff, and visitors to the Museum.

Click here to see the results posted on the V&A blog, and see below for a couple of my favourites...
 
© Gary Williams
© Janice Weston

Monday 3 November 2014

The modern-day Museum Photographers - Architecture

During the six-week Creative Photography Course I am currently running at the V&A, the students are working as Museum Photographers (click here for the background to the project). 

  The Museum Photographers © Kate Elliott

With references to the work of Charles Thurston Thompson and Isabel Cowper (the V&A’s first staff photographers), the group are exploring a combination of architectural, portrait, documentary and reportage photography, to develop a collection of images that depict their individual views and interpretations of the building, its inhabitants, and activities and events that take place there.

Throughout the course I will be posting a selection of their images on the V&A's blog culminating - in the final week - with a multi-layered 'portrait' of the Museum.

Click here for the first V&A blog post, where we showcase photographs of the building taken during week two of the course, and see below for a small edit...


http://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/news-learning-department/the-modern-day-museum-photographers
  © David Marlow
http://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/news-learning-department/the-modern-day-museum-photographers
 © Gary Williams
http://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/news-learning-department/the-modern-day-museum-photographers
© Janice Weston
http://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/news-learning-department/the-modern-day-museum-photographers
  © John Hinshelwood
http://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/news-learning-department/the-modern-day-museum-photographers
© John Francis