Anna Sellen
Anna Sellen is a photographer and multi-disciplinary artist currently living and working in the West Coast of Wales.
She works across photography, video, sound and text to tell stories about transitions that people and places undergo. Her projects often start autobiographically and evolve through extensive research. Transition remains the common thread that embraces the diversity of themes within her work, from the changes in the natural environment to the shifting identities, belonging and memory.
Her latest work ‘Lest it should fade’ is a visual and sound reflection on the decline of the bees and their habitats worldwide. This work is part of ‘Bees (and other species)’ INK collective project that was exhibited at Wales’ International Photography Festival Diffusion 2021. As artist-in-residence at the Kelvedon Hatch Cold War Bunker (2020-2021), Anna uses her family’s and the bunker’s archives to explore personal and collective memories of the Cold War. Her work ‘Ground Zero’ and ‘Bunker Diaries’ won the Shutter Hub Portfolio Award at FORMAT 2021.
Anna’s practice embraces independent and collaborative working. She is a founding member of INK collective of 6 photographers based across the UK.
Anna’s unique skillset combines analogue and digital photography with research, community development, engagement and training. She is a skilled workshop facilitator with over 15 years of experience of working in community development. This includes delivering photography and filmmaking workshops to young people and adults in community settings, running participatory action projects and working with community projects and charities to evaluate their successes and learning. Throughout her diverse career, Anna has learned to work sensitively and ethically and to embrace diversity and difference. For more information visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-sellen-a4303729/.
Anna Sellen
Photographer, visual artist, researcher and trainer
anna@annanas.org.uk | 07989854787
www.annanas.co.uk | IG: annasellenphotography
Biography
Anna Sellen is a photographer and multi-disciplinary artist currently living and working in the West Coast of Wales.
She works across photography, video, sound and text to tell stories about transitions that people and places undergo. Her projects often start autobiographically and evolve through extensive research. Transition remains the common thread that embraces the diversity of themes within her work, from the changes in the natural environment to the shifting identities, belonging and memory.
Her latest work ‘Lest it should fade’ is a visual and sound reflection on the decline of the bees and their habitats worldwide. This work is part of ‘Bees (and other species)’ INK collective project that was exhibited at Wales’ International Photography Festival Diffusion 2021. As artist-in-residence at the Kelvedon Hatch Cold War Bunker (2020-2021), Anna uses her family’s and the bunker’s archives to explore personal and collective memories of the Cold War. Her work ‘Ground Zero’ and ‘Bunker Diaries’ won the Shutter Hub Portfolio Award at FORMAT 2021.
Anna’s practice embraces independent and collaborative working. She is a founding member of INK collective of 6 photographers based across the UK.
Anna’s unique skillset combines analogue and digital photography with research, community development, engagement and training. She is a skilled workshop facilitator with over 15 years of experience of working in community development. This includes delivering photography and filmmaking workshops to young people and adults in community settings, running participatory action projects and working with community projects and charities to evaluate their successes and learning. Throughout her diverse career, Anna has learned to work sensitively and ethically and to embrace diversity and difference. For more information visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-sellen-a4303729/.
Exhibitions
2021-22 Winter group show, Cardiff MADE gallery, Cardiff, Wales
2021 Bees (and Other Species), with INK Collective, Diffusion 2021 International Photography Festival, Cardiff, Wales
2021 Shutter Hub 2021 Yearbook, online exhibition
2021 SALON21 (group show), Photofusion UK, London
2020 Photograd online gallery (group show), UK
Awards
2021 Shutter Hub Portfolio Award, FORMAT21 International Photography Festival, UK
2021 Scholarship award, StrudelMediaLive and Reflektor, Germany
Publications
2021 Shutter Hub 2021 Yearbook, printed edition
2021 Bees (and other species), exhibition zine, with INK Collective
2019 Transitions, print-on-demand photobook
2018 Breakdown, print-on-demand photobook
2017 Longitude 0, print-on-demand photobook
2016 CB1, print-on-demand photobook
Collections
2020 Cold War Museum, the Kelvedon Hatch nuclear bunker, UK
Residencies and professional development programmes
2021 Lightbox Online professional development programme for photographers,
RedEye Photography Network
2020 - 2021 Artist in Residence, the Kelvedon Hatch nuclear bunker, Brentwood, UK
Education history
University for the Creative Arts / Open College of the Arts, BA (Photography), 2022
London Academy of Media, Film and TV, Film Making (Diploma), 2014
Met Film School, Ealing Studios, Filmmaking, 2014.