Imogen Glanville
College
London College of Communication
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Person Type
Alumni
Biography
Imogen completed MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography in 2025. Imogen is a freelance Picture Editor, Photographer and Assistant.
Interview
You graduated from MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography in 2025. What was the most important learning you took from the course?
The most important thing I took from the course was learning to trust my own voice and perspective as a photographer. The course gave me the space to interrogate why I make work and to think critically about the ethics, politics and responsibility involved in documentary photography. It also taught me that a project doesn’t have to fit neatly into a traditional idea of documentary photography to be meaningful. I became much more confident in developing work that is personal, conceptual and rooted in research, while still engaging with wider social and political issues.
What was a highlight from your time at LCC?
One of the biggest highlights of my time at LCC was the connections I made with both my tutors and my course mates. I was lucky to have tutors who I felt I could really connect with, both personally and creatively, and their support and conversations had a big impact on how I developed my practice.
The friendships and community I built with my course mates were equally important — being surrounded by people who were all making such different work created a supportive and inspiring environment. Exhibiting my major project, Quotidian, in the postgraduate show was also a particularly memorable moment, as it was the culmination of so much of that shared experience.
How did your major project help you when you graduated?
My major project gave me a strong body of work that I could continue to develop after graduating, rather than feeling like I was starting again from scratch. Quotidian has helped me when approaching editors, publications, exhibitions and opportunities because it communicates quite clearly what my photographic practice is about.
The project has also continued beyond the course through exhibitions, a zine and conversations with people working in the industry, which has given me confidence in treating my work as an ongoing practice rather than something that ended with my degree.
You are now a freelance Picture Editor, Photographer and Assistant. Can you tell us more about your role?
I’m currently working across photography, editorial and picture research, alongside developing my own practice as a documentary photographer. Most recently, I’ve been working freelance as a photo editor/researcher on the commercial and branded side of The Telegraph, where I research and source imagery for articles and campaigns, while considering image quality, relevance and usage rights.
I’ve also been doing a lot of assisting for photographers whose work I really admire, which has given me the opportunity to learn more about different approaches to photography and the industry from behind the scenes.
How do you see the MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography ethos reflected in the work you do?
I think the course’s emphasis on critical thinking, ethics and questioning the way images are made and consumed continues to influence everything I do. Even when I’m working in an editorial or commercial environment, I’m conscious of where images come from, how people are represented and the context in which photographs are being used.
My own practice is still very rooted in questions around gender, representation and the politics of looking, and the course gave me the confidence to bring that critical approach into different areas of the photographic industry.
What’s the most exciting or fulfilling aspect of your current work?
I really enjoy the variety. I’m interested in photography as an industry as well as photography as an artistic practice, so being able to work across research, editing, production and my own imagemaking is really fulfilling. I particularly enjoy the process of finding the right image for a story or idea and understanding why an image works within a particular context. At the same time, it’s exciting to be building a career in the industry while continuing to develop my own work.
Have you won any awards or residencies or grants since leaving the course?
Since graduating, I was shortlisted for the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize 2025, and I’ve continued to exhibit my work. Quotidian has been exhibited as part of ASSEMBLY at Art Hub Studios and will also be shown as part of Chester Photo Festival. My project Rosie and the Girls was also included in FOUND Books’ HOME edition, which launched at the Photobook Café in London. It’s been encouraging to see work that I developed during the MA continue to grow and reach new audiences after graduating.
What are you currently working on?
I’m continuing to develop Quotidian, while also working on new photographic projects exploring intimacy, gender and the female gaze. Alongside my personal practice, I’m building experience within the editorial and commercial photography industry through picture editing, research, assisting and post-production. I’m interested in how these different areas can inform each other, and I’m trying to build a career that allows me to work both within the wider photography industry and as a photographer in my own right.
Image credit: Imogen Glanville.