PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIO

Emily’s photographic practice began as a pastime, documenting her travels and touring. 

Over time it has grown into a significant part of her artistic work, with a particular focus on dance portraiture, documentary photography, and the natural world. Photography became central to her practice during a research-focused project supporting her choreographic development across mainland Europe, as well as in London and Leeds, UK.

In 2024–25, an Arts Council Developing Your Creative Practice grant supported ATLAS, a project marking her return to creative work after focusing on family life. The project enabled her to expand and refine her visual practice, deepening her passion for directing dancers and working quietly within other artists’ processes to capture movement and dancers in motion.

Photography . ‘drawing with light’.

Phos meaning ‘light’ & graphé meaning ‘drawing, writing’.

Choreography .‘drawing with dance’.

khoreía meaning ‘circular dance’ & graphé meaning ‘drawing, writing’.

ATLAS Project, Arts Council Funded DYCP 2024-25
Test Photo Study : ’Aisha’
Location | Cornwall

Experimenting with light, form & sequencing

Dancer | Aisha Naamani
Photographer Mentor | Steve Tanner

ATLAS Project, Arts Council Funded DYCP 2024-25
Test Photo Study : ’A Sun Dance’ at Tate St Ives, created by Australian artist Rochelle Haley
Location | Cornwall

Experimenting with natural light & form & presence

Dancers | Ivey Wawn, Kyra Norman, Talia Sealey, Winona Guy, Alice Heyward

ATLAS Project, Arts Council Funded DYCP 2024-25
Test Photo Study : ’A Great Unsettling’ created by choreographer Theo Clinkard
Location | London

Experimenting with documentation of process & capturing presence

Dancers | MA Dance: Performance at The Place

ATLAS Project, Arts Council Funded DYCP 2024-25
Test Photo Study : Skies & Sand
Location | Cornwall

Experimenting with light & form

Dancers | Georgia Aitkin, Dorka Zatonyi, Benji Day & Millie Packham

COLLECTIONS

IN MOTION
Panta Rei Danseteatre (Oslo, Norway)
Shall Dance Theatre (Cornwall)
Pop Up Performance (Oslo , Norway)
All Boys Dance / Robert Mennear (Cornwall)

The Nearly Home Trees

Location | Cornwall

Shot for feature film poster Long Way Back Dir. Brett Harvey

MAIN COLLECTION | Various
Oslo - Antwerp - Paris - Cornwall - California

LINE & FORM
Viking Ship Museum (Oslo, Norway)

ARCHITECTURE
Antwerpen Railway Station (Antwerpen, Belgium)
Oslo Opera House (Norway)
Art Noveau Doors (Antwerpen)

THE COAST
Hayle (Cornwall)
Wheal Coates (Cornwall)

PLACE
Avenue Montaigne (Paris)
Oslo & Oslo Opera House (Oslo, Norway)
Santa Cruz (California, USA)
Moody Beach (San Francisco, USA)
LaceDistrict (Nottingham, UK)
Grand Canyon (Arizona, USA)
San Fancisco (California, USA)
The Nearly Home Trees (Devon/Cornwall, UK)

IN NATURE SERIES
Antwerp Botanical Gardens (Antwerp, Belgium)
Kennall Vale (Cornwall)
Perranarworthal Private Gardens (Cornwall)