I was commissioned by Victory Journal to document the boat race between Oxford and Cambridge universities - one of England’s most storied competitions. It’s a four-mile, 374- yard sprint along a choppy section of the River Thames. The Race has gone largely unchanged in its 186 year history, until this year, when the Oxford and Cambridge women’s crew raced on the same day as the men. The rowers only want to win. In a world where one race seals the legacy of an entire season, nothing else matters. Words: Beejoli Shah. Issue 10, out now - check it out.
Interview with i-D Magazine // /
Check out my interview with i-D magazine on my series Gypsy Gold; http://i-d.vice.com/en_gb/article/peeling-back-the-prejudice-and-creating-a-truthful-portrait-of-britains-traveller-community
Go East For A Women. Go West For A Horse for Re-Edition Magazine // /
Go East For A Women. Go West For A Horse for Re-Edition Magazine. Shooting traveller boys at Ballinasloe Horse Fair, Ireland. Casting & styling Madeleine Ostlie. Check the full story out on my website.
FIRECRACKER // /
My project 'Gypsy Gold' is being featured on Firecracker as the monthly online gallery feature - a platform which is dedicated to supporting European women photographers, established by Fiona Rogers. Check it out - I'm alongside amazing photographers working worldwide; http://www.fire-cracker.org/feature/4590969170
Taxidermy for The Financial Times Magazine // /
The process of Taxidermy taught by Tonja Grung with journalist Sally Davies inside The Vicktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities at The Last Tuesday Society, London, for The Financial Times Weekend Magazine. Out now.
Man About Town Magazine // /
Shooting Moschino at The Ultimate Street Car Festival - editorial out now in Man About Town Magazine. Look out!
INTERVIEW WITH 'IT'S NICE THAT' // /
Lovely article and interview with 'It's Nice That'; http://www.itsnicethat.com/features/sophie-green-gypsy-gold
Gypsy Gold // /
Check out the new series on my website titled 'Gypsy Gold'.
My fascination with the quirks and eccentricities of travellers was born after watching the Channel 4’s series, ‘My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding’. I became captivated by the heritage and traditions behind their lives and I felt compelled to go and discover their unique culture for myself.
The shoots took me to regional horse fairs from Appleby in Cumbria, across to Ballianasloe in Ireland, all the way south to Wickham horse fair in Portsmouth. At the fairs, horses are traded, girls search for husbands and friends and family from far and wide reunite.
I love the vibrancy and colours of the fairs and find them totally mesmerising - incredible faces, theatrical outfits, traditional carts, horses, cockerel fights, singing birds and fortune-tellers. Whilst shooting I often felt like I had gone back in time. The process was very organic and the series is a spontaneous, intuitive reaction to what I observed. I became obsessed with small details – the fashion, makeup, eyebrows, hairstyles, market fakes, leather, bits and whips. It’s a series of fun incidentals which create a visual story.
Gypsies have been covered so much in photography, I was aware it could easily look and feel like a cliché – this concern heavily influenced how I photographed, often I saw a good shot but it felt too obvious. I didn’t want this project to become a deep, meaningful, intellectual narrative but to simply record what caught my eye and made me smile. For all the criticism that travellers attract I found plenty of gold.
INTERVIEW WITH PYLOT MAGAZINE // /
Check out my interview with Pylot Magazine; http://www.pylotmagazine.com/sophie-green/
Selected for Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2015 // /
Really happy to announce that my portrait 'Danielle' will be a part of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2015, held at The National Portrait Gallery. The exhibition will run from 12 November 2015 – 21 February 2016 before going on tour around the U.K. Get down and see it!
INTERVIEW WITH 'THEY MADE THIS' // /
The lovely Art Buyer, Sophie Hector recently interviewed me for 'They Made This'. Find out the stories behind my work, my influences and whats next. Check it out here ----> http://theymadethislondon.com/photography/sophie-green
ELLIE // /
"I get picked on because I’m a girl. The boys will screw up their own race just to take you out. Often the boys will be as nice as pie to you off the track but when you’re racing it’s totally different. Boys have the mentality that girls shouldn’t do the sport. If I’m successful in a race or if I overtake a boy, they get wound up.” - Ellie Dawson, Mini-Stox Racing Driver.
Purple Magazine // /
'Hot & Dusty' on Purple - Travel Diary; http://purple.fr/diary/hot-and-dusty-in-morocco/
Victory Journal // /
New story coming soon for the American publication, Victory Journal about the Oxford and Cambridge university Boat Race.
A Day At The Races // /
Killing it...
WINNER OF THE MAGNUM PHOTOS AND PHOTO LONDON GRADUATE PHOTOGRAPHERS AWARD // /
Really happy to be announced as one of the winners of the Magnum Photos and Photo London Graduate Photographers Award. My project, Bangers & Smash will be exhibited at Somerset House as part of this award and Photo London. Get down and see it.
Check out The Telegraph and TIME features that focuses on this Award, you can see a brief intro of each winning project here; http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/11618526/The-10-best-graduate-photographers.html & http://time.com/3890108/photo-london-magnum-photos/?xid=fbshare
Institute Artists // /
Institute Artists are now featuring 'Bangers & Smash' on their story division; http://www.thestoryinstitute.com/bangers-smash
Magnum Photos and Photo London // /
Very happy to have been nominated for the Magnum Photos and Photo London - The Graduate Photographers Award among so many talented photographers.
NEW BANGERS & SMASH WORK // /
Don't miss out on allllll the new work I've recently shot for Bangers & Smash. Check it out on my website. This spread below was recently published in LAW Magazine.
