Emma Critchley 
Qualifications 
To start in 2009  The Royal College of Art 
MA in Photography 
2001-2004  University of Brighton 
Editorial Photography BA (HONS): First 
2000-2001  De Montfort University, Leicester 
BTEC National Diploma Art & Design Foundation: Distinction 
Awards 
January 2009  Nominated for KLM Paul Huf Award 
October 2008  The Terry O’Neill Award: Short-listed 
March 2008  AOP Assistants Awards: Short-listed 
March 2008  The British Underwater Image Festival. Open Category: Third Prize. 
Best Image in Show: First Prize. 
Sept 2005  The Joan Wakelin Award (Awarded by The Guardian & Royal Photographic 
society): Finalist 
Nov 2004  Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize: Short-listed 
October 2004  Lynn Cohen Stroud House Gallery Award: First Prize 
June 2004  AOP Student Photographer of the Year Award: First Prize 
June 2004  Burt Brill & Cardens Graduate Show Awards: First Prize 
June 2004  Nagoya University Japan Graduate Show Awards: 2nd Prize 
November 2003  ICI Image Data Student Digital Photographer of the Year: Commended Runner Up 
Exhibitions 
October 2009  The Brighton Photo Fringe Moore House, Brighton 
March 2009  The Terry O’Neill Awar The Independent Photographers Gallery, Battle, UK 
December 2008  Contemporary Portraits The Photographers Gallery, London, UK 
November 2008  ‘The Terry O’Neill Award’ Fulham Palace, London, UK 
October 2008  ‘Creatives in Residence.’ The Hospital Club, London, UK 
October 2008  ‘Best of the Awards’  The AOP Gallery. London, UK 
September 2008  ‘The Fear of Falling’ A collaboration with Sophie Lewis. Shunt Vaults, London Bridge, London, UK 
June 2008  ‘The Assistants Awards’The AOP Gallery, London, UK 
May 2008  ‘Myanmar’s Sea Gypsies’ 114 Clerkenwell Rd, London, UK 
June 2006-2007  ‘To Hold One’s Breath’ Platform. Winnipeg, Canada 
April 2007  ‘1+1=3: Collaboration in Recent British Portraiture’ The Australian Centre for Photography. Sydney, Australia 
March 2006  Fotofreo
2006 ‘1+1=3: Collaboration in Recent British Portraiture’  The City of Freemantle Festival of Photography. Freemantle, Australia 
January 2006  ‘To Hold One’s Breath’ L’Espace F. Montreal, Canada 
January 2006  Solo Exhibition Farringdon, London, UK 
November 2004  Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize The National Portrait Gallery, London, UK 
October 2004  Up And Running The Stroud House Gallery, Stroud, UK 
August 2004  ICI Image Data Student Digital Photographer of the Year Heathrow Airport, Terminal Two, London, UK 
July 2004  Free Range The Old Truman Brewery, London, UK 
June 2004  AOP Student Awards The AOP Gallery, London, UK 
June 2004  Degree Show The University of Brighton, UK 
February 2003  ‘EdPh04’ The University of Brighton, UK & Escola Massana, Barcelona 
Press 
Summer 2009  1000wordsmag.com Online interview 
July 2009  HUCK magazine 
May 2009  The British Journal of Photography LPA Futures 
May 2009  Professional Photographer The Terry O’Neill Award 
January 2009  The Telegraph Online Culture Picture Gallery 
January 2009  The British Journal of Photography ‘Project Assistance Award’ 
December 2008  The Guardian Newspaper ‘Eyewitness’ 
December 2008  Image Magazine ‘Fine Art Photography’ 
November 2008  The Sunday Times Magazine ‘Spectrum Magazine’ Cover 
September 2008  Image Magazine Cover 
June 2008  Image Magazine ‘Review: The Ladder Climbers’ 
October 2007  Image Magazine ‘Focus Underwater’ 
March 2006  A-N Magazine Cover 
June 2006  Australian Art Monthly ‘From today photography is dead:Portraiture is the digital age’ 
June 2006  HotShoe Fabulous Faraway Foto Festival Fotofreo 2006 
January 2005  Image Magazine ‘Feature: Indefinite Boundaries project’ 
December 2004  Image Magazine ‘Feature: Indefinite Boundaries project’ 
August 2004  HotShoe Best of Brighton 
June 2004  The British Journal of Photography Shooting Stars – Top Graduates 
June 2004  Image Magazine Cover 
Publications 
November 2008  The Independent Photographers Terry O’Neill Award Exhibition Catalogue 
2008  The Aop Assistants Awards book 
April 2006  Fotofreo 2006 The City of Freemantle Festival of Photography Catalogue 
2005  The AOP Photography Awards book. 
2004  Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize Catalogue 
Commissions/ Funded Work 
August 2009  Lambeth Arts Community Photography Project 
October 2008  The National Media Museum Photography Bursary 
February 2008  The Arts Council England: ‘The Fear of Falling’ 
October 2006  The Commonwealth Broadcasting Association: ‘Myanmar’s Sea Gypsies’ 
March 2006  Epson:  ‘Merge’,  within  the  exhibition  ‘1+1=3:  Collaboration  in  Recent  British 
Portraiture’