Programmes and Affiliations
2026
Ambassador, Caspa (charity)
2025- 2026
Artist Development Programme, Visualising Disability, Autograph Gallery
Organisations
Co Founder of Zinnia Collective
Experience
Current
Digital Youth Engagement Producer, Photoworks (International)
Artist Facilitator and Workshop Assistant, Creative Health Camden and Engage Here, London, UK
SEND Workshop Assistant, Autograph Gallery, London, UK
Social Media, Engage Here (Online, UK)
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
Learning and Engagement Assistant, Photoworks (International)
July 2024
Invigilator, Learn From A Bird, Grays Wharf, Falmouth, UK
2021-2024
Photographer, Whisper Magazine, Uk
2019 - 2021
Freelance Photographer, Action Photos, Lee Valley White Water Centre, Walthamstow, UK
2018
Freelance Photographer, Airlixmeet (for Alex Choi), London, UK
Exhibitions
2026
Zinnia Collective, Photo Fringe Collectives Hub 2026, Phoenix Art Space, Brighton, UK
FotoSlovo Awards, Platforms Project 2026, Public Tobacco Factory, Athens, Greece
Open Exhibition, Zinnia Collective, Photobook Cafe, London, UK
Assembly, group exhibition curated and produced by Alice Campos and Zinnia Collective, Art Hub, New Cross, London, UK
Untitled Consulting, online exhibition curated by Le Marché de Pépé
Feeling Seen, Shutter Hub, curated by Jenna Eady
Nonconformity, Winter 2026, Analog Forever, curated by Daniel George (Content Editor, Lenscratch)
Sign Up, Hot Potato group exhibition, curated by Naoise O'Keeffe (Photo Editor, Financial Times), Kit Form, Bristol, UK
2025
Open Exhibition, Zinnia Collective and Free Range, Photobook Cafe, London, UK
2024
OD Photo Prize, AJ Page, People's Choice Award, Open Doors Gallery, Battersea, London, UK
Following On, Zinnia group exhibition, Bell House, Dulwich, London, UK
PhEST International Photography Festival, screening of The Photoworks + Graduate Issue, Palazzo Palmieri, Monopoli, Italy
Picnic Outings, Picnic, St Leonards Marina and Promenade, Hastings, UK
By All Means, group exhibition, Free Range, Truman Brewery, London, UK
Falmouth Graduate Showcase, group exhibition, IOP Gallery, Falmouth, UK
2023
Walking Upright, Zinnia group exhibition, Bell House, Dulwich, London, UK
Melange, group exhibition, The Poly, Falmouth, Cornwall, UK
2022
Disobedient Bodies, group exhibition, The Fish Factory, Penryn, Cornwall, UK
2021
Restoration, group exhibition, IOP Gallery, Falmouth, UK
2020
Masculinities: Liberation through Photography. Creative Response from Our Community Partners, group exhibition, The Barbican Centre, London, UK
2019
Barking and Dagenham Collage
Talks and Broadcast
2026
Zinnia Collective, Photo Fringe Collectives Hub 2026, Phoenix Art Space, Brighton, UK
2025
Where Are The Disabled Photographers?, Peckham 24, with Stills Gallery Edinburgh
Barking and Dagenham Collage, artist talk, London, UK
2024
OD Photo Prize, AJ Page, People's Choice Award, Open Doors Gallery, Battersea, London, UK
Where Are The Disabled Photographers?, Stills, Edinburgh, Scotland
World Autism Day, artist talk, Lnd London Charity, London, UK
BBC Radio London, Spotlight, London, UK
BBC Radio Cornwall, Spotlight, Cornwall, UK
Artist talk, Falmouth University, Cornwall, UK
Publications and Press
2026
The Guardian, "Radioactive trees to fighting fish: the best of Photoworks festival 2026 – in pictures" (Online Article)
Embodied (Online)
National Geographic, ‘Scientists are starting to understand how autism and ADHD can overlap’ (Online Article)
2025
Financial Times, FT Weekender, Life and Arts, "The new politics of autism" (Printed Publication and Online Article)
Free Range, 2024 Showcase, (Online Article)
Vostok Magazine, (Printed Publication), Unbearable Haru
Public Offering Lydd, article and interview, "A Dissonant Past Unmasked: Growing up with Emily June Smith" (Online Article and Interview)
2024
Photoworks, article, Photography+ Graduates issue, written by Diane Smyth (Online Article)
British Journal of Photography, "Graduate Show 2024: An (almost) comprehensive UK list" (Online Article)
Open Doors Gallery, "Top 10 at Free Range"(Online Article)
Falmouth University, "From 'destined for prison' to a feature on international platform Photoworks" (Online Article)
Suboart Magazine, "All Eyes On Emily June Smith" (Online Article)
Autograph, article, Visualising Disability (Online Article)
Whisper Magazine, Issue Four (Printed Publication)
Immemory Magazine (Online)
Falmouth University, "Falmouth Student's Photo Series Unmasks the Reality of Growing Up with Autism and ADHD"(Online Article)
Collater.al (Online)
Boheme magazine (Online)
Photo Vogue (8 July) (Online)
Photo Vogue (8 July) (Online)
Femlens (Online)
Folks magazine (Online)
Photo Vogue, Best of Photo Vogue (8 April) (Online)
Safelight paper Magazine (Online)
Float Magazine (Online)
Marino Magazine (Online)
Photo Vogue (17 April) (Online)
2022
Whisper Magazine, Issue Three (Printed Publication)
Education
2021 - 2024
BA Photography, Falmouth University, UK. First Class Honours (Practice and Theory)
2018 - 2020
Level 3 BTEC Diploma in Photography, Barking and Dagenham College. Distinction+
Artist Facilitator
2026
Playing With Your Eyes: A Day For Families, workshop with Alma Haser, Photoworks and Thames & Hudson, Hove Museum of Creativity, UK
Bell House workshops, Zinnia Collective with SSLP, in partnership with Toe Press, London, UK
Poplar HARCA, The Men’s Cabin Workshop, London
Bromley High School workshops, Photoworks, in partnership with Zinnia Collective, London, UK
When Words Fail, photomontage workshop, Autograph Gallery, London, UK
Workshop Assistant, Creative Health Camden and Engage Here, London, UK
SEND Programme, Autograph Gallery, London, UK
2025
Workshop Assistant, Creative Health Camden and Engage Here, London, UK
Unearthing Futures, photo walk workshop, Council for British Archaeology, Newcastle, UK
My Heritage project, Council for British Archaeology Festival, with Photoworks, Cliffe Castle, Bradford, UK
Workshops, Photoworks and Purbrook Park School, alongside artists Karl Bailey, Lindsey Smith and Maria De La O Garrido, Widley, Waterlooville, UK
Open Crits, Zinnia Collective, alongside artist Edward Brilliant, Photobook Cafe, London, UK
Pinhole workshop with Zinnia Collective and artist Edward Brilliant, for North East London District Scouts, London, UK
2024
Camera obscura making workshop, Photoworks and Council for British Archaeology, My Heritage project, alongside artist Phoebe Wingrove (online)
My Heritage project, Photoworks and Council for British Archaeology, with artist Laura El-Tantawy (online)
Workshops, Photoworks, English Heritage and University of Warwick, with artists Maya Brasington and Eva Louisa Jones, Portchester Castle, Fareham, UK
PGCE workshops, Photoworks and University of Brighton, with artist Lindsey Smith, Brighton and Hove, UK
Photoworks Weekender workshops, Photoworks and Dreamy Place with artist Lynn Weddle, in response to Ammonite by Collectif Scale, with Thomas Tallis School, BHASVIC, Patcham High School and Blatchington Mill School, Brighton and Hove, UK
Pinhole and digital photography workshops, Southwark Schools Learning Partnership, with Zinnia Collective, London, UK
Visiting Lecturer, Falmouth University, UK
2023
Photobook social with Zinnia Collective, Falmouth, UK
Pinhole and digital photography workshops, Southwark Schools Learning Partnership, with Zinnia Collective, London, UK
Print swap social with Zinnia Collective and Falmouth University, Falmouth, UK
Artist teaching with Falmouth University: pinhole and digital photography workshops with local primary schools, YMCA and National Trust, Lizard Point, Cornwall, UK
2022
Artist teaching with Falmouth University: pinhole and digital photography workshops with local primary schools, YMCA and National Trust, Lizard Point, Cornwall, UK
Curation
2026
Londoni Memoirs by Seema Khalique, Four Corners Gallery, London, UK. Content curation (freelance)
Co-Curator, Photo Fringe Collectives Hub 2026, Zinnia Collective, group exhibition, Phoenix Art Space, Brighton, UK
Co-Curator, Open Exhibition, Zinnia Collective, group exhibition, Photobook Cafe, London, UK
Co-Curator, Assembly, Zinnia Collective and Alice Campos, group exhibition, Art Hub, London, UK
2025
Co-Curator, Open Exhibition, Zinnia Collective and Free Range, Photobook Cafe, London, UK
Assistant Curator, Echoes: Stone Circles, Community and Heritage, Photoworks and English Heritage, group exhibition, Stonehenge, Salisbury, UK
2024
Co-Curator, Following On, Zinnia Collective group exhibition, Bell House, Dulwich, London, UK
2023
Co- Curator, Walking Upright, Zinnia Collective group exhibition, Bell House, Dulwich, London, UK
Co- Curator, Melange, group exhibition, The Poly, Falmouth, UK
2021
Co- Curator, Restoration, group exhibition, IOP Gallery, Falmouth, UK
Assisting
2024
Exhibition Assistant to Anthony Prothero, Experiments in Living, The Poly, Falmouth, UK
2019
Studio Assistant to Shona Heath and Tim Gutt, Spring Studios, London, UK
Writing
2026
Written contribution, Photoworks P+, Vernacular Photography issue
Written contribution, Photoworks 30th Anniversary Annual
2025
Written contribution, Refinery29, "5 Women On The Reality Of ADHD Medication" (published under the name Jane to protect the privacy of the other women involved)
Competitions and Awards
2026
Honourable Mention, FotoSlovo Awards 2026, Solitude Rooted in Love
2024
People's Choice Award, OD Photo Prize, AJ Page, Open Doors Gallery, Battersea, London, UK
Top 10 at Free Range, Open Doors Gallery
Photoworks Graduates Issue 2024, P+
Best of Photo Vogue, Photo Vogue
Winner (April), Boundless Pictures
Runner-up, open call, Girls Camera Club
Training
2026
Trauma-Informed Practice, Creative Health Camden, London, UK
Training (second session): Neuro-Affirming Practice, Play Therapy Sussex, for Articulate, Brighton, UK
2025
Neuro-Affirming Practice, Play Therapy Sussex, for Articulate, Brighton, UK.