Anna Howell (b. 2002, Cheshire) is a South-East London Based practitioner, whose photographic practice draws from long-term engagement with and in response to people and place, often in her locality, through participatory and socially engaged methodologies. She is interested in the conversations and questions around community, photography as collaboration and co-authorship in image-making.

Howell graduated with her bachelors in Photography from London College of Communication, in 2023.

Her artistic and writing practices are rooted in community engagement and collaboration, where she seeks to explore imagery, moving-image and text, as forms of exchange and agency. Acknowledging the porous boundaries between process and ouput, Howell seeks to understand shared photographic experiences as common ground, for building community.

Recent projects have led her to work alongside primary and secondary school students and nonprofit organisations, as well as galleries and charities, in particular, the Chisenhale Gallery and the US Charitable Trust. Her work has been published in the British Journal of Photography and shown in various public and private spaces, including Lewisham Shopping Centre and the Houses of Parliament.



say hello!
annalilyhowell@gmail.com
instagram @annalilyphoto



EXHIBITIONS

2021 - Staffordshire Street Studios, Interim Show,
Family Spaces, London

2022 - London College of Communication, Group Installation, Interacting with the Camera, London
2022 - Lewisham Shopping Centre, Public Launch,
A Manifesto for 2.8 Million Minds, London



PUBLICATIONS

2021 - Terms of Engagement,
Participation: with Fresh Eyes, London

2022 - Live and Breathe Event, Southwark Park,
Living and Breathing Zine, London

2023 - British Journal of Photography,
March/April 2023: Money + Power



COMMISSIONS

2022 - Crest Academy, Project Manager,
Interacting with the Camera, Neasden, London

2022 - Chisenhale Gallery, Artist Assistant and Photographer,
2.8 Million Minds, Mile End, London

2023 - Chisenhale Gallery, Documentation,
For They Let In The Light, Mile End, London

2023 - Whitechapel Gallery, Documentation,
2.8 Million Minds: A Sharing: Should we fix something that never really worked?, London



TEACHING / WORKSHOP EXPERIENCE

Chisenhale Gallery
The US Charitable Trust
Crest Academy, Neasden
Angel Academy, Peckham