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About

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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

Contact

Other ways of contacting:

Email: hollyhoultonphotography@gmail.com

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