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/.
