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Tamsin is a London-based artist and designer whose practice combines walking, photography, writing and book making. She is the founder of manual.editions and the Sustainable Photobook Publishing (SPP) network, and is currently a PhD practice-led researcher at the University of Westminster.
She seeks to cultivate a regenerative practice through developing an ecology of images, materials and making processes. The structure and materiality of the artist book are central to how her work takes shape, with by-products and left-over materials often used to create new works.
Her projects include Born of the Purest Parents (2016-18), a research into the landscape, cultural history and science of salt, this is how the earth must see itself: a walk with natural features (2019-21), where the Ordnance Survey mapping system and symbols are used as a guide to explore the British landscape, and walking out of sleep: encounters with lichen territory (2021-23), a book of multiple layers, that reflect the symbiotic organism and the environmental conditions that they require to survive.
Get in touch: tam(at)tammidori.com
Follow: @tammidori
Bio
Tamsin Green (b.1982, London) has a passion for continuous learning, reflection and knowledge sharing. The thread that connects all of her creative practices together is her love of making physical things in a thoughtful and environmentally sustainable way. She has worked for 18 years in design and architecture for the studios of Thomas Heatherwick (London, 2012-2023), Norman Foster (London, 2007-2012) and Atelier Bow-Wow (Tokyo 2005-6). Whilst at Heatherwick studio she led a variety of projects, many of which involved the creative reuse of existing buildings, most notably Coal Drops Yard in London. She has also worked alongside book designers and editors to learn about publishing and develop her own photographic work into book form. These have included Stuart Smith (GOST), Yumi Goto (Reminders Photography Stronghold) and Tiffany Jones (Overlapse). She established manual.editions in 2021 to explore environmental approaches to book making through research, discussion and making.
She was a Visiting Professor of Design at Ecole Speciale D'Architecture, Paris (2006- 2007) and a tutor at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL (2019-2021). She has spoken about design, photography and book making internationally including for the following festivals and organisations; 10X10 Photobooks (USA), Brighton Photo Fringe (UK), Coventry University (UK), East London University (UK), Ecole Speciale D'Architecture (FR), Falmouth University (UK), Fiebre Fotobook Fest (ES), Format Festival (UK), Mini Click (UK), Offspring Photo Meet (UK), Photo Cafe (UK), Photofusion Gallery (UK), The Reminders Photography Stronghold (JP), Tokyo Institute of Technology (JP), Westminster University (UK).
She has been a formal mentor on both the POC in Architecture and Open City Accelerate programmes, which seek to celebrate and support diversity in the built environment. She is part of several peer mentoring groups / collectives including (re)casting, a group of 12 female photographers, and The Photobook Club Collective, a dynamic group of Photobook makers. She is the host and facilitator of the Sustainable Photobook Publishing (SPP) network, a knowledge sharing community.
Her first artist book making workshop took place at Photofusion Gallery in London in 2022 and covered visual communication, hands on book making and ecologically sustainable approaches to designing and making books.
She is currently training to become a qualified Mountain Leader to both grow her own confidence in spending time in the wilder landscapes of the UK, and to be able to open up these places to others in a thoughtful way.
VIDEO
Photoworks Studio Visit (March 2024)
As part of Tamsin Green's Digital Residency with Photoworks, she opened up her home and studio to show us the main place where she creates her work. In this short film, we go over sketchbooks, prints and books to reveal more about her bookmaking practice and sustainability.
Duration: 4.24 minutes
Julia Bunnemann In Conversation with Tamsin Green (March 2024)
Listen to this conversation between Photoworks Curator, Julia Bunnemann, and Tamsin Green, who is currently taking part in our Digital Residency programme. During this conversation, Julia and Tamsin dive into Tamsin's architectural background and how this has informed her photographic practice. They also explore Tamsin's work, her bookmaking practice as well as the way the Sustainable Photobook Publishing network came about.
Duration: 21.37 minutes
CV
Education
2023- CREAM, University of Westminster, PhD in Photography (UK)
2004-6 - Tokyo Institute of Technology, M.Eng Architecture (JP)
2000-3 - The Bartlett, University College London (UCL), BSc Architecture (UK)
Books
- What Makes a Photobook Sustainable?, SPP network (manual.editions: 2024) - editor
- walking out of sleep: encounters with lichen territory (manual.editions: 2023)
- Scale & Substance (manual.editions: 2022)
- this is how the earth must see itself: a walk with Natural Features (manual.editions: 2021)
- Born of the Purest Parents (Self Published: 2018)
Selected Collections
NAL, Victoria & Albert Museum (UK)
Art Gallery of Ontario (CA)
Artist Book Library, Tate (UK)
Parliament Collection (UK)
San Telmo Museum (ES)
The Photobook Museum (DE)
Reminders Photography Stronghold (JP)
Canterbury Christ Church University Library (UK)
Solo Exhibitions
2022 - Photofusion: SCALE & SUBSTANCE (London, UK)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 - BOP-24: Women and the Photobook - Reading Room (Bristol, UK)
2024 - Photofusion: SALON/24 (London, UK)
2024 - Stiwdio Griffith, Llyf - iteration. Group exhibition with Folium and Gareth Phillips (Swansea, UK)
2024 - London Art Fair Photo50: Grafting: The Land and the Artist (London, UK)
2023 - FORMAT23, FOTOFESTIWAL 2023, BOP-23: The Sustainable Photobook (Derby UK, Lodz PL, Bristol UK)
2022 - Dulwich Arts Festival: Ways of Seeing: Green (London, UK)
2021 - Photofusion: SELECT/21 (London, UK)
2021 - Open Doors Gallery: OD Photo Prize 2021 (ONLINE)
2021 - Photofusion: SALON/21 (London, UK)
2021 - FORMAT21: Presents (Derby, UK)
2019 - Photofusion: SALON/19 (London, UK)
2019 - Pil’Ours Festival: Time to Think (Pil’Ours, FR)
2019 - FORMAT19: Kassel Dummy Award ’18 (Derby, UK)
2019 - Open Eye Gallery: 209 Women (Liverpool, UK)
2018 - Houses of Parliament: 209 Women (London, UK)
2018 - Photofusion: SALON/18 (London, UK)
2018 - 5&23 Gallery: Shutter Hub Open18 (Amsterdam, NL)
2018 - Aarhaus Photobook Week 2018: Kassel Dummy Award 18 (Aarhaus, DE)
2018 - Brighton Photo Fringe: Casting Off (Brighton, UK)
2018 - Old Truman Brewery: Shutter Hub Open18 (London, UK)
2018 - PhotoBangkok: Photobook as Object/ Photobook Who Cares (Bangkok, TH)
2018 - Triennial Hamburg: Kassel Dummy Award 18 (Hamburg, DE)
2018 - Kassel FotoBookFestival: Dummy Award 18 (Kassel, DE)
2018 - PhotoIreland: The Library Project (Dublin, UK)
2018 - Bridewell Theatre: Borders (London, UK)
2017 - Photofusion: SALON/17 (London, UK)
2017 - Old Truman Brewery: 29th LIP Annual Show (London UK)
2017 - Darkroom Gallery: Pathways and Passageways (Vermont USA)
2017 - Davis Orton Gallery: Annual Group Show (New York, USA)
2017 - Retina Photography Festival: RPS IPE 159 (Edinburgh, UK)
2017 - Belfast Photography Festival: RPS IPE 159 (Belfast, UK)
2017 - The Museum of Somerset: RPS IPE 159 (Taunton, UK)
2016 - The University of Brighton: RPS IPE 159 (Brighton, UK)
2016 - The Printspace: Photo-Forum End of Year Show (London, UK)
2016 - Royal Albert Hall: RPS IPE 159 (London, UK)
2016 - Espacio Gallery: 28th LIP Annual Show (London, UK)
2016 - Old Truman Brewery: RPS International Print 159 (London, UK)
2016 - Davis Orton Gallery: Annual Group Show (New York, USA)
2016 - Dean Clough Gallery: The Work of the BIPP (Halifax, UK)
2016 - Buckinghamshire Art Gallery: The Work of the BIPP (Aylesbury, UK)
2015 - Photofusion: SALON/15 (London, UK)
2015 - Rich Mix: Telling Stories (London, UK)
2015 - Lishui Photography Festival: Resilience and the Human Spirit (Lishui, CN)
2015 - Hull Photography Festival: RPS Biennial Exhibition (Hull, UK)
2015 - Grant Bradley Gallery: RPS Biennial Exhibition (Bristol, UK)
2015 - Photofusion: SALON/14 (London, UK)
2014 - Royal Photographic Society: Photobook Exhibition (Bath, UK)
Invited Talks, Panels & In Conversation
“Becoming Lichenised”, Talk at Coventry University, School of Arts and Creative Industries, as part of “The Book as” Symposium talk series “Being Small”, February 2025.
“Environmentally conscious approaches to photobooks”, Talk at Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, June 2024.
“In Conversation with Sayako Sugawara”, at Fabrica, Brighton, chaired as part of the Photoworks Summit, “Photobook Club”, February 2024.
“In Conversation with Tamsin Green”, at Swansea School of Art, chaired by Estéfani Bouza, as part of an artist residency and group exhibition “Llyf” at Stiwdio Griffith, April 2024.
“Sustainability & Photobooks” Panel discussion at Impressions Gallery, Bradford, with Nishant Shukla and Clare Hewitt, chaired by Raquel Villar-Pérez, as part of the “Sustainability & the Photobook” book fair, November 2023.
“The Photobook Ecosystem: Searching for Sustainable Approaches” Online panel discussion co-organised by 10x10 Photobooks and SPP network, with Tamsin Green, Lewis Chaplin, Paul John and Catriona Gourlay, chaired by Daria Tuminas & Amelie Schule, April 2022.
“In Conversation with Dafna Talmor & Tamsin Green”, at Photofusion Gallery in London, chaired by Sid Motion, to coincide with my solo show “Scale & Substance”, March 2022.
“In Conversation with Tamsin Green, Wendy Aldiss and Roelof Bakker” at Photofusion Gallery, London, chaired by Kim Shaw, as part of Roelof Bakker’s exhibition “The Spots that Never Went”, November 2021.
“This is how the earth must see itself”, Talk as part of Fiebre Photobook Fest 2021, online programme “Talking Books”, September 2021.
“Born of the Purest Parents” Talk for Reminders Photography Stronghold, Tokyo, as part of the online programme “Why we make Handmade Books”, March 2021.
“In Conversation with Tamsin Green”, Talk for FORMAT Festival, chaired by Niamh Treacy, Instagram Live series with artists from the “EAST MEETS WEST” programme, March 2020.
“Exploring Peer Mentoring”, Discussion with invited guest Wendy Pye, for Brighton Photo Fringe 18, to coincide with the group show “Casting Off”, October 2018.
“Born of the Purest Parents” Talk at MiniClick, Brighton, as part of the “Minerals” series with Alexandra Lethbridge, August 2018.
“Born of the Purest Parents” Talk at Offspring Photo Meet, Space Studios, London, June 2018.
Workshops
“Future Photobook Practices: The Next Generation and Sustainability”, online workshop with students on undergraduate photography courses at Swansea School of Art, Coventry University, Arts University Bournemouth and the University of Westminster to discuss what sustainability means to them and their future practices. Developed with Oscar Dooley, May 2024.
“re.think | re.use | re.work”, at Agitate Gallery, Edinburgh, a collaborative photobook making workshop from discarded materials, June 2024.
“re.think | re.use | re.work workshop” at Impressions Gallery, Bradford, facilitated with Ed Sykes, as part of the “Sustainability & the Photobooks” book fair, November 2023.
“re.think | re.use | re.work”, workshop at FORMAT23 festival, facilitated with Ed Sykes and Sayako Sugawara, to coincide with the exhibition “The Sustainable Photobook”, March 2023.
“Artist Book Making” short course at Photofusion Gallery, London, to coincide with my solo show “Scale & Substance”, March 2022.
Jury
“Photobook Awards” at Photo | Frome festival, with Amak Mahmodian, Colin Pantal and Christiane Monarchi, July 2023. Trial of the first “Sustainability Honourable Mention” for a photobook.
Awards
2024 - Photofusion: Glover-Rayner Environmental Award (UK)
2024 - C/O Berlin Foundation: After Nature . Ulrike Crespo Photography Prize, Nomination (DE)
2023 - Techne AHRC PhD Studentship (UK)
2022 - Ampersand | Photoworks Residency, Shortlist (UK)
2021 - OD Photo Prize 2021, Shortlist (UK)
2021 - Photofusion SALON/21, Select Award + Commendation (UK)
2021 - Glover Rayner Environmental Award, Shortlist (UK)
2019 - FOAM Talent Award, Nomination (NL) - Unfortunately I was too old
2019 - Photofusion SALON/19, Metro Imaging Award (UK)
2018 - Photofusion SALON/18, London Alternative Photography Collective Award (UK)
2018 - BPF18 Danny Wilson Memorial Awards, Special Mention (UK)
2018 - Urbanautica Awards: Nature Shortlist (UK)
2018 - Kassel Dummy Book Award, Selected (DE)
2018 - Mac First Book Award, Nomination (UK)
2017 - Photofusion SALON/17, Photomonitor Award (UK)
2016 - B&W Magazine, Portfolio Spotlight Award (USA)
2016 - 159 RPS IPE, Selectors Choice (Dougie Wallace) (UK)
2016 - Black +White Spider Awards, Honourable Mention (USA)
2016 - IPA 2016, Honourable Mention (USA)
2015 - Offspring Photo Meet Portfolio Award, Gold (UK)
2014 - BIPP Awards, Silver (UK)
2014 - RPS Photobook Awards, Honourable Mention (UK)
2014 - Photolucida Critical Mass, Finalist (USA)
2012 - Royal Photographic Society, Associate Distinction (UK)
Publications
Ain't Bad, Another Place, boom saloon, B+W Magazine, C4 Journal, Caught by the River, Corridor8, Don't Take Pictures, Lenscratch, Loupe, fLIP, F-STOP, New Landscape Photography, RPS Journal, The Photographer, Photomonitor, Urbanautica, Verve Photo
Links
manual.editions, a non-profit publishing platform dedicatedto the research, design and making of environmentally consciousphotobooks (Founder).
Sustainable Photobook Publishing (SPP) network, a non-profitnetwork that seeks to create frameworks for discussion and knowledge exchangeacross borders (Founder).
“What Makes aPhotobook Sustainable?”, co-published with international publishers to trial distributedprinting and circulation (Editor | Co-Designer).
“Case Study” online series on sustainable approaches tophotobooks (Editor).
“The Sustainable Photobook” Touring Exhibition, Presented at FORMAT23 (Derby, UK), Fotofestiwal 2023 (Lodz, Poland), BOP-23 (Bristol, UK) and Photoworks SUMMIT 2024 (Brighton, UK). (Curator | Designer)
"Earth Day" Talks Series co-organised with Dolly Meieran.
SPP online resource database for photobooks.
“New Grounds”, acuratorial collaboration with Hannah Fletcher and AliceCazenave, from The Sustainable Darkroom, for Der Greif’s “Guest Room” series,October 2024.
“What could a Sustainable Photobook Awards Processlook like?” Collaboration with Photo | Frome festival to integrate sustainability initiatives into the book awards process,and trial the first “Sustainability Honourable Mention” for a photobook,June 2023.
“DigitalResidency”, with Photoworks, including an ‘In Conversation” chairedby Julia Bunneman”, and a “Studio Tour”, March 2024.
“walking out ofsleep: Tamsin Green in Conversation with Olivia (Lily) Edwards”, book launch talk at the PhotobookCafe, London, November 2023.
“this is how theearth must see itself”,Tamsin Green interviewed by Kim Shaw for Photomonitor, Dec 2021.
Tamsin Green interviewed by Steve Bisson for UrbanauticaJournal, Feb 2019.