TAMSIN
GREEN

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-based 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.

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)

Solo Exhibitions

2022 - SCALE & SUBSTANCE, Photofusion (London, UK)

Group Exhibitions

2024 - Women and the Photobook - Reading Room, BOP-24 (Bristol, UK)
2024 - SALON/24, Photofusion (London, UK)
2024 - Llyf – iteration, Stiwdio Griffith. Group exhibition with Folium and Gareth Phillips (Swansea,UK)
2024 - Grafting: The Land and the Artist, London Art Fair Photo50, curated by Revolv Collective  (London, UK)
2023 - The Sustainable Photobook, FORMAT23 (Derby, UK), Fotofestiwal 2023 (Lodz, Poland), BOP-23 (Bristol, UK), Photoworks SUMMIT 2024 (Brighton, UK)
2022 - Ways of Seeing: Green , Bell House, Dulwich Arts Festival (London, UK)
2021 - SELECT/21, Photofusion (London, UK)
2021 - OD Photo Prize 2021, OpenDoors Gallery (ONLINE)
2021 - SALON/21, Photofusion (London, UK)
2021 - East Meets West, FORMAT21 (Derby, UK)
2019 - SALON/19, Photofusion (London, UK)
2019 - Time to Think, Pil’Ours Festival (Pil’Ours, FR)
2018-19 - Kassel Dummy Award ’18, FORMAT19 (Derby, UK), Aarhaus Photobook Week 2018 (Aarhaus,DE), Triennial Hamburg (Hamburg, DE), Kassel FotoBookFestival (Kassel, DE),The Library Project - PhotoIreland (Dublin, UK)
2018-19 - 209 Women, Houses of Parliament (London, UK), Open Eye Gallery (Liverpool, UK)
2018 - SALON/18, Photofusion (London,UK)
2018 - Shutter Hub Open18, 5&23 Gallery (Amsterdam, NL), Old Truman Brewery (London, UK)             
2018 - Casting Off, Brighton Photo Fringe (Brighton, UK)
2018 - Photobook as Object /Photobook Who Cares, PhotoBangkok (Bangkok, TH)
2018 - Borders, BridewellTheatre (London, UK)
2017 - SALON/17, Photofusion(London, UK)
2017 - 29th LIP Annual Show, Old Truman Brewery (London UK)
2017 - Pathways and Passageways, Darkroom Gallery (Vermont USA)
2017 - Annual Group Show, Davis Orton Gallery (New York, USA)
2016-17 - RPS International Print 159, Retina Photography Festival (Edinburgh, UK), Belfast Photography Festival (Belfast, UK), The Museum of Somerset (Taunton, UK), University of Brighton (Brighton, UK), Old Truman Brewery (London, UK), Royal Albert Hall (London, UK)
2016 - Photo-Forum End ofYear Show, The Printspace (London, UK)
2016 - 28th LIP Annual Show, Espacio Gallery (London, UK)
2016 - Annual Group Show, Davis Orton Gallery (New York, USA)
2016 - The Work of the BIPP, Dean Clough Gallery (Halifax, UK), Buckinghamshire Art Gallery (Aylesbury, UK)
2015 - SALON/15, Photofusion (London, UK)
2015 - Telling Stories, Rich Mix (London, UK)
2015 - Resilience and theHuman Spirit, Lishui Photography Festival (Lishui, CN)
2015 - RPS BiennialExhibition, Hull Photography Festival (Hull, UK), Grant Bradley Gallery (Bristol,UK)
2015 - SALON/14, Photofusion (London, UK)
2014 - Photobook AwardsExhibition, Royal Photographic Society (Bath, UK)

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)

Invited Talks, Panels & In Conversation

“Becoming Lichenised”, Talk at Coventry University, as part of “The Book as” Symposium, Feb 2025.

“Artist Talk”, at Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, June 2024.

“In Conversation with Sayako Sugawara”, at Fabrica, Brighton, chaired as part of the Photoworks Summit, Feb 2024.

“In Conversation with Tamsin Green”, at Swansea School of Art, chaired by Estéfani Bouza, as part of an artist residency and group exhibition, April 2024.

“In Conversation with Tamsin Green”, with Photoworks, chaired by Julia Bunneman, as part of a "Digital Residency", (online) March 2024.

“walking out of sleep: encounters with lichen territory”,  at the British Lichen Society's Annual Symposium, Nottingham University, Invited by Gothamie Weerakoon, Senior Curator of Lichens and Slime Moulds at The Natural History Museum, Feb 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, Nov 2023.

“Photography Forum”, Talk at Westminster University, Organised by Lucy Soutter, Nov 2022.

“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”, Nov 2021.

“This is how the earth must see itself”, Talk as part of Fiebre Photobook Fest 2021, online programme “Talking Books”, Sept 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”, Oct 2018.

“Born of the Purest Parents”, Talk at MiniClick, Brighton, as part of the “Minerals” series with Alexandra Lethbridge, Aug 2018.

“Born of the Purest Parents”, Talk at Offspring Photo Meet, Space Studios, London, June 2018.

Curatorial Projects 

"What Makes a Photobook Sustainable?" Exhibited at CONTACT Festival, Toronto (CA), May 2025.

"New Grounds", a curatorial collaboration with Hannah Fletcher and Alice Cazenave, from The Sustainable Darkroom, for Der Greif’s “Guest Room” series, Oct 2024.

"The Sustainable Photobook" SPP Touring Exhibition, Presented at FORMAT23 (Derby, UK), Fotofestiwal 2023 (Lodz, Poland), BOP-23 (Bristol, UK) and Photoworks SUMMIT 2024 (Brighton, UK).

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.

Teaching 

I give regular artist talks and tutorials for universities on the subject of “Sustainable Photobooks”, “Artist Publishing”, and “Developing Ecological Practices” . These have included undergraduate and graduate photography and fine art courses at London College of Communication, University of Salford, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Brigham Young University, Coventry University, Westminster University, Falmouth University.

CV available on request.

Workshops

“Future Photobook Practices: The Next Generation and Sustainability”, month long 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”, a collaborative photobook making workshop from discarded materials. Facilitated at Agitate Gallery, Edinburgh, June 2024. Co-facilitated at Impressions Gallery, Bradford, as part of the “Sustainability & the Photobooks” book fair, Nov 2023, and FORMAT23 festival, 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.