ABOUT
Eleanor Church
Lark Rise Pictures
Clients include:
Action Against Hunger
BID Colchester
Bureau of Investigative Journalism
CAFOD
Caritas
Colchester Borough Council
Emily Thornberry
Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF)
Essex Wildlife Trust
eXXpedition
Forivor
Guardian US
HIV/AIDS Alliance
HuffPost
International Red Cross and Red Crescents (IFRC)
International Rescue Committee (IRC)
IUCN
Make Poverty History
Marine Stewardship Council (MSC)
Mind
National Academy for Social Prescribing (NASP)
Praxis
The Media Trust
The Wildlife Trusts
The Zoological Society of London (ZSL)
Transparency International
UNOPS
WildAid
Telling stories through pictures
I'm an award-winning filmmaker and photographer and I've been making films and capturing photo stories for 20 years.
With a background in documentary, investigative and creative filmmaking and photography, my work has taken me across the UK and the world. I've worked on a whole range of projects, both documentary and commercial, with a particular interest in stories that focus on society, environment, women, human rights, migration and supply chains. A number of my films have had a direct impact on policy change - something I'm really proud of.
More recently, I've also started also working with brands and makers in the UK, capturing portraits, process and location.
My work is broad but it all has a common thread running through it - people. The thing that I treasure the most about my work is meeting people and having the privilege to tell their story through pictures and words.
I'm as happy with my camera up a mountain, in the middle of the ocean or a jungle, in the backstreets of a heaving foreign city as I am in the quiet of a person's home, a field or a studio.
My work has been published in numerous magazine, newspapers and websites and shown on The Guardian, Stylist, Oceanographic Magazine, Conde Nast Traveller, Positive News, BBC, Al Jazeera, the HuffPost, the BBC, Spanish national TV, London Fashion Week, at the US State Department, a number of high profile UN and international meetings and at exhibitions and film festivals.
I did my Foundation Studies and BA at Camberwell College of Arts and I have a Masters degree in Documentary Practice. I've travelled widely, worked in 35 countries to date and lived in a number of European cities. These days, I live between the Highlands in Scotland and North Essex with my family where you'll find me jumping into the sea or estuary at least once a week.
I'll be releasing my first feature documentary, X Trillion, in 2022 (www.xtrillionfilm.com)
I'm in fluent in French, speak good conversational Spanish.
I'm an Association of Photographers (AOP) member and a United Nations accredited photographer. I also contribute to Exposure picture library: https://weareexposure.co.uk
Please get in touch about commissions, image licensing and print sales.
Exhibitions + Awards (photography):
2023: AOP Awards: Silver Award - Lifestyle category
2023: AOP Awards: Finalist - Spaces category
2022: SUN33 Awards - Second place
2022: AOP Awards: Finalist - Environment category
2022: FujiFilm House of Photography AOP exhibition
2022: AOP f22 Women in Focus exhibition
2021: Portrait of Britain 2021 Shortlist
2021: Lucie Foundation / The Guardian Award finalist
2021: AOP f22 Self-portrait exhibition
2020: eXXpedition Summit, Arboretum, London
2019: Beyond Plastic, The Minories