OCA Photography Social Group: Alys Tomlinson

For our next event we are pleased to welcome multi-award winning photographer Alys Tomlinson to speak to us about  Slow Photography on Wednesday 10th June at 18:30 BST

Alys is a photographic artist based in London. She works mostly in black and white analogue on a large format camera, exploring themes of faith, ritual and identity.

Alys grew up in Brighton and studied English Literature and Communications at the University of Leeds. After graduating, she moved to New York for a year and was given her first commission for Time Out, before returning to London to study photography at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. She later completed an MA in Anthropology of Travel, Tourism and Pilgrimage (Distinction) at SOAS, University of London, which tied in with her long-term, personal project about pilgrimage.

Her book Ex-Voto was published by GOST Books in 2019 and Lost Summer was self-published in 2020. Alys recently…