CV
Download research CV HERE
EDUCATION
Current PhD University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK
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
2012 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Western Washington University, WA, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Forthcoming
NJ Pinhole Club Group Exhibition, Unique Photo, Philadelphia, PA, USA (1-30 April 2023)
2023
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
40 Under 40 Women Artists, Schack Art Center, Everett, WA, USA
Worlds Within Worlds: In Transition, James Hockey Gallery, Farnham, UK
WORDplay, Fringe Arts Bath, Bath, UK
Mother Tongue, James Hockey Gallery, Farnham, UK
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
World Cyanotype Day, Alternative Processes, Online
Materiality and Landscape, Brewery Tap UCA Project Space, Folkestone, UK
2020
Out of Isolation, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK
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
2016
The One Fest Goa International Photo Festival, Goa, India
Flash, The Lightbox Gallery and Museum, Woking, UK
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
Oaxaca Estenopeica, World Pin Hole Day Pop-up Show, Oaxaca Mexico & Edinburgh Scotland
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
Obscure: Pinhole Exhibition, B-Gallery, WA, USA
BOOK FAIRS
2022
Small Publishers Fair, London, UK
Bristol Art Book Event, Bristol, UK
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
Forthcoming
The Verdancy Project Artist Residency, Portland, OR, USA (14 - 20 August 2023)
2021 Despatch Artist Residency, Work Show Grow, Lyndhurst UK
2019 Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (now Advance HE)
COLLECTIONS
Cardiff Metropolitan University
bookRoom Special Collection – University for the Creative Arts, Farnham.
VADS – www.vads.ac.uk
Water in the Library project – https://www.msdm.org.uk/library
TEACHING
2023 Adjunct Professor, Western Washington University, WA, USA
2018-2022 Teaching Assistant MFA Photo, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK
2019-21 Associate Lecturer BA Photography, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK
2012 Teaching Assistant, Western Washington University, WA, USA
VISITING LECTURER
Frances Bardsley Academy for Girls
West Highland College UHI
Western Washington University
RESEARCH
Ongoing Fast Forward, The Manifesto: Activating Actions, Knowledge Exchange Fund, Assistant Researcher & Project
Administrator, UCA, Farnham UK
2021 – 22 Putting Ourselves in the Picture, AHRC/UKRI Fellowship, Assistant Researcher & Project Administrator, UCA,
UK
2019 KATALOG Journal Special Issue 30.2 Fast Forward Women in Photography, Editorial Assistant, UCA, UK
2016 Women in Photography: A History of British Trailblazers, The Lightbox Gallery and Museum, Research
Assistant, UK
2016 Elisabeth Frink Horse (1980), Milton Keynes Council, Research Assistant, UK
PUBLICATIONS – PEER REVIEWED PAPERS - ARTICLES
2023
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: Women in Photography Changes In Policy and Practice, by Elizabeth Ransom, Anna Fox, and Maria Kapajeva, Fast Forward: Women in Photography, UCA (Launching in Miami and London 2023)
2022
Maybe. magazine, Kalamari Klub and IsoQuant Heidelberg (More info HERE)
Putting Ourselves in the Picture, Fast Forward: Women in Photography, Published by Trolley Books (Buy a copy HERE)
EXP. 22 International Festival on Experimental Photography Experimentarium Catalog, Experimental Photo Festival, Graficas Campas (Buy a copy HERE)
Out Loud, Work Show Grow, (Visit HERE)
Where are you a local? Published by Silvergrass Press (Buy a copy HERE)
2021
Becoming Sisters; Women Photography Collectives & Organizations, by Aldeide Delgado (Buy a copy HERE)
United, Work Show Grow, (Order your free copy HERE)
An interview with Elizabeth Ransom, WWU Phlog (Read on the WWU Phlog website HERE)
2019
Discussions in Online Collaborative Work, Cohesion and Learning in Higher Education and Cake, by Smart, Ransom, Le Fevre, Sheldon, Jones & Mensink, Journal of Useful Investigations in Creative Education, UCA, UK (Available on the JUICE website HERE)
2016
Out of Obscurity – Flowers Gallery, Fleur and Arbor, Online
2012
The Stone Issue, The Planet Magazine, Western Washington University, WA, USA (Read on The Planet website HERE)
TALKS AND PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
2023
Presentation of the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: Women in Photography Changes In Policy and Practice Report, WOPHA/Fast Forward: Women in Photography US Tour: Miami, Rubell Museum, Miami, Florida, USA
Presentation of the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: Women in Photography Changes In Policy and Practice Report, WOPHA/Fast Forward: Women in Photography US Tour: Miami, The Bunker Art Space, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
2022
Agents of Transformation, ELIA Biennial Conference, Helsinki, Finland
Kalamari Klub Maybe.Magazine Release, Rotlicht Festival for Analog Photography, Vienna, Austria (Watch the recording HERE)
Migration, Place Attachment and Gender, Talking Place: A Symposium, Manchester Metropolitan
University, The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester, UK
Chemigrams, Crystalogram, and Soil Chromatography with GuL Cevikoglu, Stig Marlon Weston, & Elizabeth Ransom, Exp. 22 International Festival on Experimental Photography Conference, Barcelona, Spain
Vision Statement from Protocols of Care with Yris Apsit, ELIA Agents of Transformation: Second cycle, third conversation, Online
Unfixing photography: Using soil chromatography to record place attachment, Symposium for Artist Research in Analog Photography, Helsinki Darkroom Festival, Helsinki, Finland
Artists for Social Impact, Work Show Grow Instagram Live, Online
2021
Women Migrants: Visualising Transnationality, Matter of Circulation: Research Conference, Creative Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone, UK
Her-O Work in Progress, Carli Adby Photo Instagram Live, Online
Anywhere you go - Artist Talk Salon 02, Work Show Grow, Online
PhD student presentations, MFA Photography, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, Online
2020
Presentation of PhD research, MFA Photography, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, Online
2011
Why Are You Doing That? Student Panel, Society for Photographic Education Northwest Regional Conference, WA, USA
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Forthcoming
Raising the Roof, The Lightbox Gallery and Museum, Woking UK (October 2023 Date TBC)
2022 In Translation, Linear Gallery, Farnham, UK
2018 Flora, Woking Train Station, Woking, UK
2016 - 22 UCA Farnham: Graduate Photography Show, The Lightbox Gallery and Museum, Woking, UK
WORKSHOPS
Forthcoming
Speaking with Light: A Conceptual Approach to Alt Processes, Photography Center Northwest, Seattle, WA, USA (More info coming soon)
Sun Prints Summer Camp, Hillside Academy, Duvall, WA, USA (More info coming soon)
2021
Botanical Camera-less Photography Workshop, Farnham Pottery, Farnham, UK
2020
Cyanotype Camera-less Photography, Farnham Pottery, Farnham, UK
Experimental Cyanotypes Workshops, Farnham Pottery, Farnham, UK
Introduction to Cyanotypes Workshop, Farnham Pottery, Farnham, UK
Introduction to Anthotypes Workshop, Online
INTERNSHIP & VOLUNTEER WORK
2015-2016 Exhibition Intern, The Lightbox Gallery and Museum, Woking, UK
2014-2015 Ambassador, Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Art Museum, WA, USA
OTHER
2021 - 2022 Studio Manager & Community Lead, Work Show Grow
2020 - 2021 Archive Assistant, Jean Wainwright Oral History and Andy Warhol Archive
Download research CV HERE
EDUCATION
Current PhD University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK
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
2012 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Western Washington University, WA, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Forthcoming
NJ Pinhole Club Group Exhibition, Unique Photo, Philadelphia, PA, USA (1-30 April 2023)
2023
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
40 Under 40 Women Artists, Schack Art Center, Everett, WA, USA
Worlds Within Worlds: In Transition, James Hockey Gallery, Farnham, UK
WORDplay, Fringe Arts Bath, Bath, UK
Mother Tongue, James Hockey Gallery, Farnham, UK
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
World Cyanotype Day, Alternative Processes, Online
Materiality and Landscape, Brewery Tap UCA Project Space, Folkestone, UK
2020
Out of Isolation, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK
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
2016
The One Fest Goa International Photo Festival, Goa, India
Flash, The Lightbox Gallery and Museum, Woking, UK
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
Oaxaca Estenopeica, World Pin Hole Day Pop-up Show, Oaxaca Mexico & Edinburgh Scotland
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
Obscure: Pinhole Exhibition, B-Gallery, WA, USA
BOOK FAIRS
2022
Small Publishers Fair, London, UK
Bristol Art Book Event, Bristol, UK
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
Forthcoming
The Verdancy Project Artist Residency, Portland, OR, USA (14 - 20 August 2023)
2021 Despatch Artist Residency, Work Show Grow, Lyndhurst UK
2019 Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (now Advance HE)
COLLECTIONS
Cardiff Metropolitan University
bookRoom Special Collection – University for the Creative Arts, Farnham.
VADS – www.vads.ac.uk
Water in the Library project – https://www.msdm.org.uk/library
TEACHING
2023 Adjunct Professor, Western Washington University, WA, USA
2018-2022 Teaching Assistant MFA Photo, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK
2019-21 Associate Lecturer BA Photography, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK
2012 Teaching Assistant, Western Washington University, WA, USA
VISITING LECTURER
Frances Bardsley Academy for Girls
West Highland College UHI
Western Washington University
RESEARCH
Ongoing Fast Forward, The Manifesto: Activating Actions, Knowledge Exchange Fund, Assistant Researcher & Project
Administrator, UCA, Farnham UK
2021 – 22 Putting Ourselves in the Picture, AHRC/UKRI Fellowship, Assistant Researcher & Project Administrator, UCA,
UK
2019 KATALOG Journal Special Issue 30.2 Fast Forward Women in Photography, Editorial Assistant, UCA, UK
2016 Women in Photography: A History of British Trailblazers, The Lightbox Gallery and Museum, Research
Assistant, UK
2016 Elisabeth Frink Horse (1980), Milton Keynes Council, Research Assistant, UK
PUBLICATIONS – PEER REVIEWED PAPERS - ARTICLES
2023
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: Women in Photography Changes In Policy and Practice, by Elizabeth Ransom, Anna Fox, and Maria Kapajeva, Fast Forward: Women in Photography, UCA (Launching in Miami and London 2023)
2022
Maybe. magazine, Kalamari Klub and IsoQuant Heidelberg (More info HERE)
Putting Ourselves in the Picture, Fast Forward: Women in Photography, Published by Trolley Books (Buy a copy HERE)
EXP. 22 International Festival on Experimental Photography Experimentarium Catalog, Experimental Photo Festival, Graficas Campas (Buy a copy HERE)
Out Loud, Work Show Grow, (Visit HERE)
Where are you a local? Published by Silvergrass Press (Buy a copy HERE)
2021
Becoming Sisters; Women Photography Collectives & Organizations, by Aldeide Delgado (Buy a copy HERE)
United, Work Show Grow, (Order your free copy HERE)
An interview with Elizabeth Ransom, WWU Phlog (Read on the WWU Phlog website HERE)
2019
Discussions in Online Collaborative Work, Cohesion and Learning in Higher Education and Cake, by Smart, Ransom, Le Fevre, Sheldon, Jones & Mensink, Journal of Useful Investigations in Creative Education, UCA, UK (Available on the JUICE website HERE)
2016
Out of Obscurity – Flowers Gallery, Fleur and Arbor, Online
2012
The Stone Issue, The Planet Magazine, Western Washington University, WA, USA (Read on The Planet website HERE)
TALKS AND PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
2023
Presentation of the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: Women in Photography Changes In Policy and Practice Report, WOPHA/Fast Forward: Women in Photography US Tour: Miami, Rubell Museum, Miami, Florida, USA
Presentation of the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: Women in Photography Changes In Policy and Practice Report, WOPHA/Fast Forward: Women in Photography US Tour: Miami, The Bunker Art Space, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
2022
Agents of Transformation, ELIA Biennial Conference, Helsinki, Finland
Kalamari Klub Maybe.Magazine Release, Rotlicht Festival for Analog Photography, Vienna, Austria (Watch the recording HERE)
Migration, Place Attachment and Gender, Talking Place: A Symposium, Manchester Metropolitan
University, The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester, UK
Chemigrams, Crystalogram, and Soil Chromatography with GuL Cevikoglu, Stig Marlon Weston, & Elizabeth Ransom, Exp. 22 International Festival on Experimental Photography Conference, Barcelona, Spain
Vision Statement from Protocols of Care with Yris Apsit, ELIA Agents of Transformation: Second cycle, third conversation, Online
Unfixing photography: Using soil chromatography to record place attachment, Symposium for Artist Research in Analog Photography, Helsinki Darkroom Festival, Helsinki, Finland
Artists for Social Impact, Work Show Grow Instagram Live, Online
2021
Women Migrants: Visualising Transnationality, Matter of Circulation: Research Conference, Creative Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone, UK
Her-O Work in Progress, Carli Adby Photo Instagram Live, Online
Anywhere you go - Artist Talk Salon 02, Work Show Grow, Online
PhD student presentations, MFA Photography, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, Online
2020
Presentation of PhD research, MFA Photography, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, Online
2011
Why Are You Doing That? Student Panel, Society for Photographic Education Northwest Regional Conference, WA, USA
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Forthcoming
Raising the Roof, The Lightbox Gallery and Museum, Woking UK (October 2023 Date TBC)
2022 In Translation, Linear Gallery, Farnham, UK
2018 Flora, Woking Train Station, Woking, UK
2016 - 22 UCA Farnham: Graduate Photography Show, The Lightbox Gallery and Museum, Woking, UK
WORKSHOPS
Forthcoming
Speaking with Light: A Conceptual Approach to Alt Processes, Photography Center Northwest, Seattle, WA, USA (More info coming soon)
Sun Prints Summer Camp, Hillside Academy, Duvall, WA, USA (More info coming soon)
2021
Botanical Camera-less Photography Workshop, Farnham Pottery, Farnham, UK
2020
Cyanotype Camera-less Photography, Farnham Pottery, Farnham, UK
Experimental Cyanotypes Workshops, Farnham Pottery, Farnham, UK
Introduction to Cyanotypes Workshop, Farnham Pottery, Farnham, UK
Introduction to Anthotypes Workshop, Online
INTERNSHIP & VOLUNTEER WORK
2015-2016 Exhibition Intern, The Lightbox Gallery and Museum, Woking, UK
2014-2015 Ambassador, Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Art Museum, WA, USA
OTHER
2021 - 2022 Studio Manager & Community Lead, Work Show Grow
2020 - 2021 Archive Assistant, Jean Wainwright Oral History and Andy Warhol Archive