About

Contact
Email: alliecrewestudio@gmail.com
T: +44 7840726363


Allie Crewe is a UK-based artist and photographer who creates collaborative visual stories about people, with a particular interest in women’s lives, memory, inheritance and experience. Her long-form practice explores lives in transition — what is healed, what remains, and what we carry with us.
Working collaboratively with participants, Allie uses portraiture, staged imagery, writing and archival material to create work that opens up dialogue, challenges stereotypes and offers alternative perspectives. Her projects are rooted in sustained relationships, allowing intimate and authentic stories to emerge and connect with wider social histories.
Alongside this, she undertakes selected editorial commissions for national newspapers and magazines, and collaborative projects with arts, cultural and social-impact organisations.
Allie holds a Master of Fine Arts in Photography (Distinction) and is an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society. She is a two-time winner and three-time finalist of Portrait of Britain and Portrait of Humanity, and has been shortlisted for the Royal Photographic Society International Photography Exhibition.
She has exhibited across the UK, including at Ffotogallery Wales and Photo London, and her photography has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, The Telegraph Magazine, The Sunday Times and BBC News. Her clients and collaborators have included Arts Council England, Salford Art Gallery, the NHS and The Science Gallery London.
Her work is held in private collections, and editioned prints are available for purchase. She undertakes selected commissions and collaborations.

“Sincere and poignant work.” — Magnum Photo Awards
“These images have a lot of heart and empathy; they offer detail and a real sense of actual relationships… an account of love that feels timeless. They do not judge; they celebrate in a gentle and accommodating way.” — LensCulture
“…the photographs (Your Own Light) continue Allie’s journey as a political artist, exploring social issues through photography to give voice to those often denied power.” — Creative Boom


CV

Awards
Portrait of Britain — British Journal of Photography & Hoxton Mini Press
Shortlist, 2025
Associate Award — Royal Photographic Society, 2024
RADAR Photo Ireland — Shortlist, 2024
Winner, Portrait of Britain — British Journal of Photography & Hoxton Mini Press, 2023
Winner, Edition365, 2023
International Photography Exhibition — Shortlist, Royal Photographic Society, 2023
Portrait of Humanity — Shortlist, British Journal of Photography & Hoxton Mini Press, 2022
International Photography Exhibition — Shortlist, Royal Photographic Society, 2021
BarTur Awards — Shortlist, 2021
AOP Emerging Talent Award — Finalist, 2020
Exhibited at Photo London, 2020
Winner, Portrait of Britain — British Journal of Photography & Hoxton Mini Press, 2019
Portrait of Britain — Shortlist, 2017

Monograph
You Brought Your Own Light (1st edition), 2020 — Axis Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-9164089-2-0

Selected Press
The Guardian
The Telegraph Magazine The Telegraph 
BBC News
The Independent
Evening Standard
Vanity Fair
Daily Mail
DIVA Magazine
Creative Boom
Woman & Home

Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
Common Grounds — Kent & Essex, 2025
Royal Exchange Theatre — Manchester, 2024
Science Gallery London, 2024
Still I Rise — Salford Art Gallery (NHS), 2022
Your Own Light, 2022
I Am, 2022
Diffusion International Festival, 2021
NHS Digital, 2020
The Lowry Gallery, Salford (NHS England), 2019
Manchester Library — National Transgender Charity, 2018
Selected Group Exhibitions
Portrait of Britain — British Journal of Photography
Portrait of Humanity — British Journal of Photography, 2023
Photo London, 2020
Portrait of Britain — JCDecaux UK, 2019
Getty Gallery, London, 2017
Lloyd’s London, 2017
Blackshed, 2017

Selected Clients
The Royal Photographic Society
The Telegraph Magazine
NHS
University College London
King’s College London
Royal Exchange Theatre
Science Gallery London
SafeLives
Somerset House (Photo London)
National Transgender Charity
Manchester Library
The Lowry Gallery
University of Salford
Salford Art Gallery
Short Films Below
I welcome enquiries about my work, exhibitions, research and collaborations, as well as talks, workshops and mentoring. Please get in touch using the form below or email me directly.
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