About
Holly Houlton is a photographer and writer originally from Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
She is currently studying and based in the West Midlands, completing her final and fourth year on a BA (Hons) Photography course at Coventry University.
The last academic year she spent based in Madrid, learning her third year of study at Universidad de Europea Madrid for an Erasmus year as a sandwich year of her degree.
Houlton’s work mainly explores the subjects of people and place; with a particular interest in the effects they have on one another in relation to experience and time.
Using a personal approach, themes of intimacy, relationship and self-reflection are applied to depict and interpret the environments surrounding her. This is realised in a variety of mediums including photography, moving image, sound and spoken or written word. Specific attention to detail and light attempts to draw out the perhaps otherwise unseen and stimulate emotive contemplation.
Alongside interpreting the world around her through a lens, she is also a passionate writer of photography in both the journalistic and academic form. Houlton regularly contributes to and has been published by numerous established magazines within the field; she is also a listed author for Professional Photo Magazine.
Beside taking part in exhibitions and getting involved with publications as shown on the right-hand side, Houlton also volunteers for art galleries or festivals where possible including the Eastside Projects contemporary art gallery in Birmingham and the Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art festival 2019.
She has also assisted professional photographers such as; Ian Farrell, July-August of 2017. Check out his website here: http://www.ianfarrell.com
Phillip Waterman February 2020, check out his website here: https://phillipwaterman.com
Houlton also has a blog which documents her professional photography experiences, exhibitions and work for clients in more detail as well as her Erasmus year experiences, visit it here at: https://hollyhoultonphotog.wixsite.com/mysite/blog
Her full CV can be available upon request.
A full reference list can be supplied upon request.
Exhibitions
Introducing exhibition, Ellen Terry building, Coventry University, 2017
Until The Third Bridge exhibition, The Tin Music and Arts Venue, Coventry, 2017
Exposure exhibition, The CET building, Coventry, 2018
The Past, We Miss exhibition, Manson House residence home, Bury St Edmunds, 2018
LAHAD exhibition, Drapers, Coventry, 2018
The Outsider exhibition, Bushwick Community Darkroom, Brookyln, New York 2019
FotoClasse exhibition, Universidad de Europea Madrid, Madrid, 2019
Guest Speaker at The Photographer's Gallery as part of a 'Viewpoints' programme, 2020
Features and Commissions
Bury and West Suffolk Magazine (shortlisted in the Regional Supplement/Magazine of the Year category of the 2017 News Awards) 2015, 2017
Professional Photo magazine, September Issue 2017
Marlowe Theatre website 2017
Native Magazine Creative Guide (first issue) 2018
Photography News website 2018
deCODE Magazine online (issuu) 2018
https://issuu.com/nkkaluza/docs/decode_issu
Native Magazine website and Issue One 2018/2019
Hashtag Photography magazine online blog 2018
https://www.hashtagphotomag.com/blogpost/natalia-poniatowska-twelve-dying-palm-trees
Professional Photo Magazine online blog 2020
https://professionalphoto.online/journey-to-pro-holly-houlton-zines/
Loupe Magazine online blog 2020