The Space Between Us

A presentation by Victoria Kelly

Victoria is a British journalist and photographer based in Stroud. She moved to Stroud in 2024 after seventeen years living in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. Last year she had a very successful solo exhibition in the Lansdown Gallery in Stroud, The Space Between Us, featuring portraits taken in Zambia, mostly on film. She set up a darkroom in her studio on the outskirts of Lusaka where she processed her own film and prints.

‘After years of taking only digital photographs, the slower, more deliberate process of film photography appealed to me and has made me think more carefully about the pictures I take. This in turn has reinvigorated my whole photography practice.‘

Her talk will cover her Zambia work, including thoughts on film v digital. She also has some new projects in the pipeline – one looking at solstice/equinox celebrations and the absorption of nature-based rituals into mainstream culture in Britain, and possibly one featuring a series of Stroud portraits. She may share some images from the early stages of this work.