ABOUT
Tamsyn Warde is a documentary and portrait photographer based in Winchester, Hampshire. She is passionate about photography and her interest lies in exploring issues through photographic storytelling and portraiture.
She is inspired by social issues and community, in particular exploring identity, belonging, mental health, addiction and feminism. Many of her long-term documentary projects reflect these themes. She has loved photography from a very young age and is an avid photo book collector.
"I want to photograph the considerable ceremonies of our present, because we tend while living here and now to perceive only what is random and barren and formless about it. While we regret that the present is not like the past, and despair of its ever becomming the future, its innumerable inscrutable habits lie in wait for their meaning. I want to gather them, like somebody's grandmother putting up preserves, because they would have been so beautiful." Diane Arbus (1963)
Exhibitions & Achievements
Aug 2023 ‘Portrait of Humanity’ - (Vol 5) Exibited at Belfast Exposed 3rd Aug - 23rd Sept 2023.
May - July 2023 - ‘Our Windrush Story’ - 8 Portraits, Willis Museum and Sainsbury Gallery, Basingstoke.
Jan 2023 'Portrait of Britain' - (Vol 5) winner at The British Journal Of Photography (BJP) Nationally exhibited in the UK's biggest annual photography exhibition for 1 month in partnership with JCDecaux.
2nd July - 10th Sept 2022 'The Photography Prize winner' - Southampton City Gallery Summer Exhibition.
May 2022 'Under One Roof' - Winchester Cathedral and The Brooks Center (lower level)
Feb 2021 and Feb 2022 'Lenscuture Online Gallery'
August 2021 'Park Life' - The Kenetic Carrot Gallery, Inn the Park, Abbey Mill, Winchester
2020 'Winner at Historic England's "Picture Lockdown" Competition'
2019 Winchester University, 2020 - 2021 Chester University, Autumn 2022 University of Birmingham 'Sober Exposure'
Follow the journey on Instagram.
