046 - Briony Campbell
© Briony Campbell
Briony Campbell works both as a photographer and, increasingly, as a film maker. Here’s what she says on her website: "I work with photography and video, to tell stories about who we are and how we understand each other. I shoot promos, documentaries, events and campaigns for arts, education, research and social innovation clients." She has a Masters degree in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography from the London College of Communication and her graduation project in 2009 recieved widespread attention and was therefore instrumental in getting her career off to a flying start. The Dad Project was Briony’s attempt to document and make sense of her father’s terminal cancer and his eventual death. Her more recent ongoing project - Love in Translation explores stories about British/African couples living in Africa and will soon be showcased on a dedicated website at loveintranslation.net (live from March 2017).
Briony will be showing the work and talking about the project at Photo Forum in London, at The Printspace, on February 14th.
On episode 046, Briony discusses, among other things:
Her Dad’s job as a family therapist
Working with video
Falling in love with the darkroom
Truth
Mentoring terminally ill people
“I would never publish anything that I didn’t think was true, but to get to the point where I feel like ‘this is true’ is something I really struggle with, to the point where I think ‘I shouldn’t be doing this’...”
