Victoria Ahrens

Biography

Victoria Ahrens is the Course Leader for MA Photography at London College of Communication, a fine art photography course that teaches Expanded practices in photography looking at new technologies, historic process and wider lens based practices, photobook publishing and photographic curating.

Victoria completed her Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded PhD in Photographic Practice and Theory at Birkbeck College, University of London in 2017, during which she explored notions of the embodied encounter with landscapes of trauma and memory. This meant creating photographs in the River Parana itself, a place where the aftermath of the dictatorship in Argentina was situated among forensic anthropologists, who looked for the DNA of the disappeared there. It is also the place where I grew up.

She has exhibited her work widely both in the UK and Internationally, with recent shows in Kunsthaus Vienna, with Reseau Lux-Paris Photo, the TJ Boulting Gallery in London; Galerie Fleur in Kyoto, Japan; Hangzhou Academy of Art, China; Balzac’s Print Rooms in Paris and Studio Maragnone in Florence, Italy.

Victoria has won a number of prizes including the Clifford Chance Purchase Prize, the Printmaker’s Council Award, and the Celeste Photography Prize in 2013, and she was a finalist in the Glover/Rayner Sustainable Photography Prize in 2021.