Denise Baker is a photojournalist, documentary, and portrait photographer. Her work focuses on social and environmental issues and draws on influences from her previous career as an ethnographic psychologist, where she interviewed and collected the stories of the people with whom she worked.

Denise continues to collect and tell stories though her photography, matching them with recorded or written dialogue, sound and moving image. She is currently working on a long-term project exposing the impact of the High-Speed Rail (HS2) project on the communities lining the proposed route, and frequently photographs environment and climate change activists, Black Lives Matter Protests

Although Denise received her first camera at the age of eleven, she only began exhibiting her work in 2016. She has exhibited widely in Wales where she lived until earlier this year holding her first solo exhibition as part of LLAWN 2019 (Llandudno Arts Weekend).

Denise has received Arts Council support for her documentary work, has been featured as an emerging female voice in film. She received an honorary mention at PX3 2020 (Prix de la Photographie Paris) for her lockdown project ‘The Bottom Field’ a story of survival in unprecedented times and most recently won PX3 State of the World 2021.

https://deniselaurabaker.co.uk

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