Biography
Emily Graham is a freelance image editor, photographer and curator.
After graduating from Editorial Photography (BA Hons) at University
of Brighton in 2006, she relocated to London where she is now living
and working.
Her work has been published in a variety of publications including The
Guardian, Creative Review, The Big Issue, Plan B Magazine and The Stool
Pigeon and has been exhibited in Host Gallery, Rothschilds Bank, Chatts
Palace and Crane Kalman Gallery.
She is also a director of a photographic print sales website, Contact
Editions (www.contacteditions.co.uk), and co-runs the Contact photography
blog (www.contactcollective.blogspot.com).
Statement
"I was born and raised in Warwickshire and although I have since
moved out and on, I continue to return and have a close relationship
with the Midlands.
My hometown, Rugby, is a passing place, the middle of the country; you'll
have travelled through it on the train or perhaps when you've reached
the end of the M1. From it's industrial remnants to sprawling fields
and farms, it's small towns and quaint localities to the grey cities
and wasteland, it keeps a balance of banality and beauty; the towns
that I spent much of my much youth escaping from are now the towns that
I return to for solace from the city. I have been returning to the Midlands
to pursue personal projects for the last few years and look forward
to the chance to further this with the What Is England project."