I grew up in the countryside of South West England and moved north to study Psychology at The University of Leeds. In London I began working in documentary research and then photographic publishing. I studied photography at Photo Fusion in Brixton under Paul Ellis and afterwards assisted a number of photographers including my mentor Laurence Dutton. Together we worked on projects for Getty Images
and other clients for three years. My photographic practice developed and I collaborated with refugee organisations in the U.K. I spent the next decade shooting abroad whilst running my photography studio in London. Collaborating with NGOs I created projects for Coaching For Hope, South Africa; WIZO, Israel; Sandblast, Algeria; Medical Action, Myanmar; and more recently in Canada, Clowns Without Borders and For Our Children Montréal. I incorporate ambient and interview sound recordings in some of my projects. I was cinematographer on the documentary feature film
Rire about a humanitarian clown changing the lives of children all over the world. The film’s director and filmmaker, Jean-Philippe Tremblay and I fell in love. To shoot the film we moved our lives to Montreal where we now have two young beautiful children who inspire us every day. We continue our photography and filmmaking projects in Quebec and abroad. My work is driven by research-led, self-initiated projects. I always try to reveal personal stories with compassion, authenticity, power, and poetry. My projects include Demo-crazy: images and audio recordings reflecting the political unrest and uncertainty in Myanmar; Devil’s Garden: a series of images that reflect on the external geographical landscape and the internal perspective of the Saharawi people in exile in Algeria; and Deuxième Salon: photo essays about individuals creating healthy communal organic grass roots lifestyles. I have shot campaigns for The Royal Opera House, Sadler’s Wells, Penguin Books, Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital, Red Consultancy, Second Movement Opera, and designer Sindiso Khumalo. I have produced work for record labels including Reclaimed Goods and Inch Time Records. My work has been published in The Sunday Telegraph, The Times, Tatler, Sunday Mirror Magazine, Coven Magazine, ManOn Magazine, The London Paper and Journal Metro amongst others
Institute Imago, 2020, awarded me the 1st place prize in the International Portrait Photography Awards. I was short-listed for the Taylor Wessing National Portrait Prize in 2011 and 2015, and selected for the Portrait Salon in 2012. I balance independent projects with commissions from charities, NGOs, commercial clients and private individuals. I am co-founder and project director of studio de grand-pré collective. Website: www.livmanntremblay.com
