Lea Elm
I’m a Danish photographer and writer living by the coast in South East England alongside my partner D.
My photographic work is mostly documentary in nature, informed by the places I have inhabited or been a visitor to. It is often fragmentary and centred on singular, fleeting moments, while exploring ideas about transience, memory and belonging, as well as inner, often quiet emotion.
I use a mix of digital, instant and 35mm cameras, across both colour and monochrome, as well as hybrid and alternative processes, too.
I usually work on several projects simultaneously and in recent years I have been focusing on prints, artist books, zines and handbound one-off photo books.
© Daniel Richards 2019
Photography, print and writing co-exist and influence each other in my work, which can be see in what I am inspired by and in some of my photography work that has been published and accompanied by text. I was also the 2nd place winner for my poem Paper Houses at The Disabled Poets Prize 2023.
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My work has been featured in and can be found through the following publications and online platforms:
Zine Feature: “Wild Things”
WorkHorse Collective, WerkHaus Zine, Issue #4, June 2023
Interview: “In Focus - Lea Elm”
Ilford Photo, In Focus #66 interview, February 2023
Online exhibition: “Yearbook 2021”
Shutter Hub, group show, September 2021
Zine feature: “Still Life”
WorkHorse Collective, WerkHauz Zine, Issue #2, July 2021
Zine feature: “2sic2spurious”
Film photography community zine, ed. Matthew Parry/Dave Allen, August 2020
Podcast: “Ep. 172: Entropy or Negentropy?”
Sunny 16 Podcast, October 2019
Photo essay: “Failure is Success with Different Rules”
Let’s Explore Magazine, Issue 02, “Perseverance”, 2018
Podcast: “Underexposed #3”
Sunny 16 Podcast, May 2018
Interview: “Women in Photography: An Interview with Lea Elm”
SRB Photographic blog, April 2018
© Daniel Richards 2019