About | Ellen Rogers

Ellen Rogers

About



I’m a fashion and fine art photographer and darkroom printer. I work exclusively with analogue processes, including traditional darkroom techniques and intaglio etching. My work is perhaps best known for its use of hand-colouring techniques.

Over the years, I’ve worked with clients including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar China, Vice, Tank, i-D, Alice Temperley and Charlotte Olympia, as well as cultural institutions including the Ashmolean Museum and the Smithsonian.

Alongside my photographic practice, I teach photography in higher education, and I’m a committed trade unionist.

I graduated from Goldsmiths College with an MA in 2007, and I’m currently completing a PhD at Central Saint Martins. My research examines the often-uncredited labour behind photographic printing, using oral histories, archival research and practical experimentation to understand how darkroom printers and other technicians have helped shape the work we associate with photographers of the post-war period.

I’ve presented my research at The Photographers’ Gallery and the British Journal of Photography, and I’ve been a judge for the Women in Photography Spotlight at the Royal Photographic Society Awards. My work is currently supported by ORWO.

I use part of this site to raise money for progressive and humanitarian causes that matter to me.

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