Lea Elm
I’m a Danish photographer and writer living by the coast in South East England with my partner Daniel.
My photographic work is mostly documentary in nature and informed by the places I have lived in or visited. It is often fragmentary and centred on singular, fleeting moments, while exploring ideas about transience, memory and belonging.
I use a mix of 35mm, instant and digital cameras, as well as hybrid and alternative processes, too.
I usually work on several projects simultaneously and have recently been focusing on prints, artist books, zines and handbound one-off photo books.
© Daniel Richards 2019
Outside of photography I am also a writer and poet, having won 2nd place for my poem Paper Houses at The Disabled Poets Prize 2023. In my work the two practices often inform each other and on more than one occasion my photography has been accompanied by my writing, as can be seen in some of the photographic work I’ve had published.
My work has been featured in and can be found in 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