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​​Upcoming Events

Upcoming Exhibitions     
            

On Nature, Graf Rumford, Munich, Germany (19-25 October 2026)
  
2026 Department of Art + Design Faculty Exhibition, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Ellensburg, WA, USA (1-24 October 2026)            

This land, here we dwell, 2026 Fotofocus Biennial, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA (1-31 October 2026)
 

Upcoming Conferences and Symposiums

The Art of Experimentation Symposium, Folk House Darkroom and WAPG, Bristol, UK (1 August 2026)

Contemporary Feminist Photography, Experimental Photography Festival 2026, Barcelona, Spain (25 July 2026)


​CV
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​Education
 
2025 

PhD Fine Art and Photography

University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK
Supervised by Dr. Jean Wainwright and Professor Anna Fox
Visualising transnationality: How women transcribe the experience of migration using alternative photographic processes

2019   
                 
Post Graduate Certificate in Creative Arts Education
University for the Creative Arts, Epsom, UK

2016                    

Master of Fine Arts, Photography
University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK (with distinction)

2012                    

Bachelor of Fine Arts
Western Washington University, WA, USA
Major: Fine art with a concentration in photography and drawing
Minor: Art history

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Exhibitions
 
2025                    

In-between, Wozownia Art Gallery, Toruń, Poland

2024

Transnational, The James Hockey Gallery, Farnham, UK (Solo Show)
 Landmarks Through Life: Gender & Migration, James Hockey Gallery, Farnham, UK
 Homesick, The Brewery Tap Gallery, Folkestone, UK (Solo Show)

2023                    

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Raising the Roof, The Lightbox Gallery and Museum, Woking, UK
NJ Pinhole Club Group Exhibition, Unique Photo, Philadelphia, PA, USA (Juried Exhibition)
The Performing Photobook Exhibition, FORMAT International Photography Festival, Derby, UK
41st Annual H'Arts Benefit Auction, Schack Art Center, Everett, WA, USA

2022                    

Living Image 2022, The Halide Project, Philadelphia, PA, USA (Juried Exhibition)
40 Under 40 Women Artists, Schack Art Center, Everett, WA, USA (Juried Exhibition)
Worlds Within Worlds: In Transition, James Hockey Gallery, Farnham, UK
WORDplay, Fringe Arts Bath, Bath, UK
Mother Tongue, James Hockey Gallery, Farnham, UK (Juried Exhibition)
Despatch, New Forest Heritage Centre, Lyndhurst, UK

2021                    

Practice as Research: WIP, Foyer Gallery UCA, Farnham, UK
Abstract, Espacio Gallery: Hosted by Tebbs Contemporary Gallery, London, UK (Juried Exhibition)
World Cyanotype Day, Alternative Processes, online (Juried Exhibition)
Materiality and Landscape, Brewery Tap UCA Project Space, Folkestone, UK

2020                    

Out of Isolation, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK (Juried Exhibition)
Work in Progress PhD Exhibition, Brewery Tap UCA Project Space, Folkestone UK
Remembering Nature, Farnham Pottery, Farnham, UK 

2017                    

London Pinhole Festival, Four Corners Gallery, London, UK (Juried Exhibition)

2016      
             
Flash, The Lightbox Gallery and Museum, Woking, UK (Two Person Show)
The One Fest Goa, International Photo Festival, Goa, India
F:38, Hoxton Arches, London, UK
UCA Graduate Show, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK
Highlights from the University of the Creative Arts, The Lightbox Gallery and Museum, Woking, UK

2015 
                   

World Pinhole Day Pop-up Show, Oaxaca, Mexico, Edinburgh, Scotland (Juried Exhibition)
First Phase, Lishui Photography Festival, Lishui, China

2014                    

Volunteer Art Show, Seattle Art Museum, WA, USA

2013                     

The Collective Body, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK

2012                    

Flux-B, B-Gallery, WA, USA
Beyond Borders International Art Competition, Viking Union Gallery, WA, USA (Juried Exhibition)
Obscure: Pinhole Exhibition, B-Gallery, WA, USA 


Conferences and Public Presentations
 
2026                    

Exposing Violence: Women Using Experimental Photography to Confront Gendered Violence at the Women of Photography Conference-a-thon 2026, Online, 04/08/2026.

2024                    

The Woods: Exploring Place Attachment Through Soil Chromatography at the RENEWAL - Society for Photographic Education Northwest Regional Conference, Gresham, Oregon, USA, 10/04/2024

Migrant Women: Stories of Movement at the UCA Student Research Conference. University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury, UK, 06/13/2024.

Homesick at the Women Alternative Photography Group Seminar. Brewery Tap Gallery UCA Project Space. Folkestone, UK 05/25/2024.

Manifesto Calling for an Increased Involvement of Women in Photography by Elizabeth Ransom & Anna Fox at the IAA Cluster Showcase, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. 05/08/2024.

PhD student presentations at the MFA Photography, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, Online, 04/24/2024.

​Place Attachment and Soil Chromatography at the Space/Place Research Salon, University of Kent, Online, 03/20/2024.

2023                    

Meet the Photographers: Debate and Panel Discussion with Elizabeth Ransom, Bahareh Akbarisafa, Marten Lange, Anna Linderstam, & Charan Singh at the The Lightbox Gallery and Museum, Woking, UK, 10/26/2023.

Intricacies of Place: Visualizing Migration Through Alternative Photographic Processes with Elizabeth Ransom at the Kinship Gatherings, Online, 08/08/2023.

A Conversation with Elizabeth Ransom & Shaima Ayoub at the Tasweer 2023 Biennial, Qatar, Online, 05/14/2023.

Presentation of the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: Women in Photography Changes in Policy and Practice Report by Elizabeth Ransom, Anna Fox, & Aldeide Delgado at the WOPHA/Fast Forward: Women in Photography US Tour, Bunker Art Space, West Palm Beach, USA, 03/09/2023

Presentation of the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: Women in Photography Changes in Policy and Practice Report by Elizabeth Ransom, Anna Fox, & Aldeide Delgado at the WOPHA/Fast Forward: Women in Photography US Tour, Rubell Museum, Miami, USA, 03/09/2023

2022                    

PhD study day at the MFA Photography, University for the Creative Arts, Online, 12/07/2022.

Soil Chromatography at the Kalamari Klub Maybe.Magazine Release, Rotlicht Festival for Analog Photography, Vienna, Austria, 11/19/2022.

Migration, Place Attachment and Gender at the Talking Place: A Symposium, Manchester Metropolitan University and The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester, UK, 09/02/2022.
                   
Chemigrams, Crystalogram, and Soil Chromatography with Stig Marlon Weston, Gul Cevikoglu, & Elizabeth Ransom at the Exp. 22 International Festival on Experimental Photography Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 07/21/2022.

Vision Statement from Protocols of Care by Elizabeth Ransom & Yris Apsit at the ELIA Agents of Transformation: Second cycle, third conversation, Online, 09/07/2022.

Unfixing photography: Using soil chromatography to record place attachment at the Symposium for Artist Research in Analog Photography at the Helsinki Darkroom Festival, Helsinki, Finland, 03/06/2022.

​Artists for Social Impact with Elizabeth Ransom & Natasha Caruana at Work Show Grow, Online, 03/02/2022.

2021    
                
PhD study day at MFA Photography, University for the Creative Arts, Online, 11/01/2021.

Women Migrants: Visualising Transnationality at the Matter of Circulation: Research Conference, Creative Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone, UK, 10/23/2021. 

Anywhere you go - Artist Talk Salon 02 at Work Show Grow, Online, 05/26/2021.

​PhD study day at MFA Photography, University for the Creative Arts, Online, 03/01/2021.

2020                    

PhD study day at MFA Photography, University for the Creative Arts, Online, 05/01/2020.

2011                    

Why Are You Doing That? Student Panel with Austin Chernich, Allison Avery, Quinton Maldonado, Mollie Stewart, Christa Dougherty, Wendy Witsoe, Elizabeth Ransom, & Joe Rudko at the Society for Photographic Education Northwest Regional Conference, WA, USA, 11/07/2011.
              

Print Publications
 
2022                    

Putting Ourselves in the Picture
by Anna Fox & Maria Kapajeva, London, Trolley Books (co-editor)

Maybe. Magazine, Heidleberg, Kalamari Klub, Isoquant.

EXP. 22 International Festival on Experimental Photography Experimentarium Catalog by Pablo Giori, Barcelona, Graficas Campas.

Out Loud, by Natasha Caruana, Margate, Work Show Grow.

Where are you a local? By Elizabeth Ransom, Emma Lambert, Nigel Walker, Nuria Castro, Noemi, Liz Kings, Jack Matts, & Julia Neal, Coventry, Silvergrass Press.

2021                    

Becoming Sisters; Women Photography Collectives & Organizations, by Aldeide Delgado, Miami, Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA).

United, by Natasha Caruana, Margate, Work Show Grow.

2012                    

The Stone Issue, The Planet Magazine by Tachihara, B. Bellingham: Huxley College, Western Washington University. 
   

Online Publications

Analog Forever Magazine
WWU NEWS
Lenscratch
Farnham Herald
WWU PHLOG
 

Academic Publications
 
2024                    

Revisions: Research Report, by Elizabeth Ransom, London, Victoria & Albert Museum and Fast Forward Women in Photography

2023                    

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: Women in Photography Changes in Policy and Practice Report, by Elizabeth Ransom, Anna Fox, & Maria Kapajeva, Farnham, Fast Forward: Women in Photography

2019                    

Discussions in Online Collaborative Work, Cohesion and Learning in Higher Education and Cake, by Elizabeth Ransom, Ben Smart, Jim Le Fevre, Francesca Sheldon, Maddy Jones, & Orande Mensink, Farnham, Journal of Useful Investigations in Creative Education          
 

Teaching Experience
 
Central Washington University | Ellensburg, WA (September 2025 – Present)
Lecturer. Head of the Photography Program. General responsibilities include maintaining and operating wet darkrooms and digital facilities, overseeing a media cage and servicing all equipment, mentoring BFA students, creating syllabi, grading, and teaching photography courses.

  • 225 Beginning Photography (Analog)
  • 325A Intermediate Photography (Color)
  • 325B Intermediate Photography (Alternative Analog Processes)
  • 325C Advanced Photography (Visual Narratives)
  • 367A Sustainable Photography
  • 425 Advanced Photography
 
Photographic Center Northwest | Seattle, WA (January – August 2025)
Faculty. General responsibilities include creating syllabi, grading, and teaching photography courses.

  • Photography 1: Black and White
 
Western Washington University | Bellingham, WA (March 2023 – August 2025)
Adjunct professor on the BA photography program. General responsibilities include creating syllabi,
grading, and teaching photography courses.

  • ART 171 Photography for non-majors
  • ART 370 Black and White Photography 1
  • ART 373 Photography Alternative Processes
  • ART 397A Sustainable Approaches to Photography
  • Honors Senior Capstone Project
 
University for the Creative Arts | Farnham, UK (September 2017 – 2022)
Associate lecturer on the BA Photography course (2019-2021). General responsibilities include
grading, and teaching photography courses.

  • Documentary Practices with Lecturer Annie Ras
  • Constructed Image with Lecturer Peter Renn
 
Teaching assistant on the MFA photography program (2017-2022). General responsibilities include project management of international and internal collaborations, curation of student internal and external exhibitions, assisting, teaching classes on the photography course.

  • Exploratory Practices with Professor Anna Fox
  • Research and Development with Professor Anna Fox
  • Advanced Practices with Professor Anna Fox
  • Final Project with Professor Anna Fox
 

Workshops
 
2025                    

Cyanotype Children's Workshop, A Week on the Farm - Hillside Academy, Duvall, WA, USA 

2024                    

Women Behind the Camera as part of the Conversations in Photography, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA, USA

2023                    

Women Behind the Camera as part of the Agents of Change Workshop Series, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA, USA

Sun Prints, Hillside Academy, Duvall, WA, USA

2021                    

Botanical Camera-less Photography, Farnham Pottery, Farnham, UK

Cyanotype Camera-less Photography, Farnham Pottery, Farnham, UK

Experimental Cyanotypes, Farnham Pottery, Farnham, UK

Introduction to Cyanotypes, Farnham Pottery, Farnham, UK

2020                    

Introduction to Anthotypes, Online
 

Guest Lecturer
 
2025

Guest Lecturer, Binghamton University State University of New York, New York, USA

2021                    

Guest Lecturer, Frances Bardsley Academy for Girls, Romford, UK

2020                    

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Guest Lecturer, West Highland College UHI, Scotland, UK

2016 - 2024       

Guest Lecturer, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, USA

2012                    

Teaching Assistant, Western Washington University, WA, USA
 

Research Experience
 
2024                    

Research Assistant, Revisions, AHRC Impact Acceleration Account, Victoria & Albert Museum and Fast Forward: Women in Photography, London, UK

2022-2023         

Assistant Researcher and Project Administrator, Fast Forward, The Manifesto: Activating Actions, Knowledge Exchange Fund, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK

2021 - 2022       

​Assistant Researcher and Project Administrator, Putting Ourselves in the Picture, AHRC/UKRI Fellowship, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK

2019                    

Editorial Assistant, KATALOG Journal Special Issue 30.2 Fast Forward Women in Photography, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK    

2016                    

Exhibitions Research Assistant, Women in Photography: A History of British Trailblazers, The Lightbox Gallery and Museum, Woking, UK 
                   
Exhibitions Research Assistant, Elisabeth Frink Horse (1980), Milton Keynes Council, The Lightbox Gallery and Museum, Woking, UK


Residencies and Awards
 
2023                    

The Verdancy Project, Troutdale, Oregon, USA

2021                    

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Despatch Artist Residency, Work Show Grow, Lyndhurst, UK

2019                    

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (now Advance HE)
 

Curatorial Projects
 
2023                   

Raising the Roof, The Lightbox Gallery and Museum, Woking, UK

2022                     

In Translation, Linear Gallery, Farnham, UK

2018                    

Flora, Woking Train Station, Woking, UK

2016 – 2022     

UCA Farnham: Graduate Photography Show, The Lightbox Gallery and Museum, Woking, UK


Related Work Experience 

2025 - 2026      

Portfolio Reviewer, College for Creative Studies Film and Photo Portfolio Reviews, College for Creative Studies, Detroit USA

2023 - 2024       

Juror, Chase the Light International Photography Competition, PCNW, WA, USA

2021 - 2022       

Studio Manager and Community Lead, Work Show Grow, Margate, UK

2020 - 2021       

Archive Assistant, Jean Wainwright Archive, London, UK

2016 - 2018        

Marketing Assistant, The Lightbox Gallery and Museum, Woking, UK

2015 - 2016       

Exhibition Intern, The Lightbox Gallery and Museum, Woking, UK

2014 - 2015       

Ambassador, Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Art Museum, WA, USA 


Permanent Collections
 
Photographic Center Northwest Library
Cardiff Metropolitan University Collection
bookRoom Special Collection
Visual Arts Data Service (VADS)
Water in the Library Project


Organizations
 
2024                    

Society for Photographic Education (SPE)

2023 - Present  

Founder and Director of Women Alternative Photography Group (WAPG)

2023                    

College Arts Association of America (CAA)

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