Real Photography Company

Ruth has a 1st class Photography BA Hons Degree and 30 years experience in photography, teaching and community arts. She worked at Watershed Media Centre managing darkrooms, community photography projects and courses, and supervised relocation of Watershed's darkrooms to St Pauls Learning Centre in 2005. From 2006 Ruth delivered arts and community engagement programmes at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Felix Rd Adventure Playground and Monica Wills House, Bristol. She now teaches photography and manages St Pauls Darkrooms, having rediscovered her love for black and white and experimental photographic processes.

Justin is a Bristol photographer who has specialised in pinhole photography and camera obscura creation for the past 30 years. He has taught locally and internationally and has published several educational books on light and photography, but seems to be best known for taking photos from inside his mouth. He has a BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art Photography from Derby Lonsdale College, a PGCE in Secondary Education and is an Associate Lecturer at Falmouth University.

Anna's background as an Art Psychotherapist working with children and young people has informed her creative practice as a photographer. She is particularly interested in traditional processes and how, from the unexpected, a beautiful image can emerge. She enjoys processes where photography can have a painterly feel, such as gum bichromate and cyanotypes, and the experimental aspect including using seaweed as a film developer and turmeric to produce images. 

Mike is a Bristol based photographer and lecturer with an MA in Photography and a DET in Education and Training. After a 15-year freelance career in commercial photography and publishing, the lure of paid holiday and a pension resulted in a transition to arts education, and he is currently course leader for HE Photography at the City of Bristol College. Alongside teaching, his creative practice is centred around the landscape and the agency that forms between place, artist, and visual outcome, with a particular interest in analogue image making. His website is www.michael-crocker.co.uk

Sofia Yu is a visual artist with a BA in Photography and an MA in Media Production: TV Documentary Production. She has worked as a freelance photographer campaigning alongside NGOs, for Human Rights.  Sofia has also worked as a photography teacher and a contributor for Getty LATAM. Academically, she ventured into an MPhil/ PhD in Visual Anthropology giving continuity to her body of work which focuses mainly on Indigenous communities and their struggles, until she moved to Bristol in 2022. In Bristol, she is currently documenting the local Brazilian community.