Polly Penrose

Polly Penrose

Polly Penrose studied Graphic Design at Camberwell College of Arts in London. She went on to work in Fashion Styling and after that worked for the photographer Tim Walker as his Studio Manager. She has always taken photographs, but started to take the practice seriously when she entered and won a competition held by the London Photographic Association in 2008. She held her first solo show, ‘A Body of Work’, at the Downstairs at Mother Gallery, London, in May 2014. She was part of a group show, Dear Sylvia, at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney, March 2015 and the Hellerau Photography Award, in February 2016. She was shortlisted for the D&AD Photography Next Photographer Award in April 2015. Her work has featured on Dazed Digital, The British Journal of Photography, The Huffington Post, and many other influential blogs.