Anu

So very pleased that my image titled 74 and 17 is one of the winners of @bjp1854 #portraitofBritain . Feels absolutely surreal to even type these words. This image will be exhibited alongside images by 99 incredible artists on @jcdecaux_uk screens across Britain. A massive congratulations to all the winners and a huge thank you to the judges. #portraitofBritain #portrait #documentingpeople #documentary

It's worth downloading the app again ( I am on a self imposed Insta break) to make this very special announcement. So very pleased that my image is one of the winners of @bjp1854 #portraitofBritain . This image will be exhibited alongside images by 99 incredible artists on @jcdecaux_uk screens across the country till Feb. If you spot the image, please take a picture and share it with me. To win two years in a row feels incredible and what a start to 2026. Biggest thank you to my mum for always being a willing participant. Film developed and scanned by @jandastudiosheffield A massive congratulations to all the winners and a huge thank you to the judges. @rene.matic @__sophie.parker__ @dennismcevoymorris @alice.zoo @tomboothwoodger @hohumha Vivienne Gamble

A rare Sunday at home. Between the last few weeks of work for me and college deadlines for the kid, we found a bit of time to make something together. A bedsheet, some string, safety pins, and a lot of wind. Laughter in between frames. Trying to find play again in my practice.

A few images taken on the Canon Ixus 55, a birthday gift from the cutest @lynnatmiserden Mostly home, because I rarely go anywhere… such is the work-from-home life. A few were taken on walks, on the rare occasions I remembered to take the camera with me. I recently read an article about Gen Z returning to old technology — iPods, digital cameras, flip phones. Happy to embrace my inner Gen Z with my Canon… a camera that first launched in 2005.

Care & Defiance, Luna's first print exhibition opened yesterday, on 1st May ; International Workers’ Day. It felt fitting. Because so much of what this exhibition holds speaks to labour, the labour that often goes unseen, unacknowledged, and undervalued. The labour of care. The labour of holding families, communities, and histories together. The labour of making, resisting, surviving. The quiet, repetitive, emotional, and physical labour that women carry every single day, and often without recognition, very often without rest. This exhibition itself is built on that same kind of labour. Months of care, collaboration, and collective effort from artists, curators, organisers, and friends coming together. To open on this day felt like a reminder that this labour matters. That it deserves to be seen. Thank you to everyone who showed up. Like I said last night; you are the village. Pic 1 courtesy of @nilupayasmin_ Pic 4-10 courtesy of @marta_kochanek @luna.photobham @jaskirtdhaliwalboora @rebeccamorleans @maria_reaney @rachelsegalhamilton @marta_kochanek

The last six months of hard work leads to this incredible exhibition. Bringing together works of 11 women artists, two national collectives. A salon hang featuring all the artists who entered the open call and two archival work. All together that's 87 artists under one roof.  Care and Defiance is the first print exhibition by @luna.photobham - network for women and non binary photographers based in the West Midlands. A network that is the brainchild of the incredible powerhouse of a woman @jaskirtdhaliwalboora The exhibition features powerful imagery of what Care and Defiance looks like. Spanning from tender moments between a grandchild and her grandmother to images from pro Palestine marches, to exploration of motherhood, beauty standards, and identity. The exhibition is not just about what's on the walls, but also about the people who made it possible-collective effort. It has been a pleasure and a joy working with these amazing women. @rebeccamorleans @marta_kochanek @rachelsegalhamilton @maria_reaney @jaskirtdhaliwalboora

We are so excited to share that @gamangari is joining us on the Lisel Haas project! She will create an artistic response to the archive that will be on display as part of our upcoming exhibition at the Library of Birmingham. Anu Gamanagari is an India-born, UK-based visual artist and arts worker whose work explores themes of motherhood, migration, and belonging. Her practice is grounded in the rhythms of everyday life, drawing from personal experiences as a mother, migrant, and musafir (मुसाफिर – traveller) to create intimate portraits of care, identity, and transformation. Working primarily with photography, Anu’s long-form projects centre on the domestic, capturing those closest to her to reflect on shifting roles, intergenerational relationships, and the invisible labour that underpins family and community life. Through this lens, she explores how the rhythms of everyday life create a sense of home, transforming the ordinary into reflections on love, loss, and resilience. Anu was one of the winners of the Portrait of Britain 2024, 2025 and the English Heritage Archive’s Picturing Highstreets commission in 2023. Her work has been exhibited at FORMAT Festival (2025), Midlands Art Centre (Belonging, 2025), RBSA Photography Prize (2023, 2025), and Aspex Gallery (Traces of Being, 2025). She has been shortlisted for the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize (2021, 2023) and shortlisted for the RPS IPE 165. Alongside her practice, Anu curates and manages community-facing projects that amplify overlooked voices, including The Meadows (solo exhibition by Rita Pena, 2025), REFLECTOR (2023–24), My Queer Life (2024), and WomeninPhotoBirmingham (2024). Image credit: @marleystarskeybutler

Selector Spotlight: Anu describes herself as a mother, migrant,and musafir (मुसाफिर – traveller). Working primarily with photography, Anu’s long-form projects centre on the domestic, capturing those closest to her to reflect on shifting roles, intergenerational relationships, and the invisible labour that underpins family and community life. Through this lens, she explores how the rhythms of everyday life create a sense of home, transforming the ordinary into reflections on love, loss, and resilience. Anu is a Portrait of Britain awardee and has exhibited her work across the UK, including at Aspex Portsmouth, MAC Birmingham, and FORMAT Festival. Alongside her practice, Anu curates and manages community-facing projects that amplify overlooked voices, including The Meadows (solo exhibition by Rita Pena, 2025), REFLECTOR (2023–24), My Queer Life (2024), and WomeninPhotoBirmingham (2024). "I'm looking for an honest and raw interpretation of what Care & Defiance means to you. For me, it’s not always found in the loud or spectacular moments, it often lives in the small, everyday acts that quietly resist, protect, or persist. The gestures we repeat without thinking, the choices we make when no one is watching, the ways we continue to show up for ourselves and others. These are the moments I’m most interested in.” Design: @marta_kochanek Portrait by Marley Starskey Butler #SelectorSpotlight #LunaSelectors #WomenPhotographers #CareAsPractice @marleystarskeybutler

new year, new name, same community 💥 Say hi to Luna (formerly Women in Photo Bham) This January we celebrate our 3rd year 🙌🏽 and we are stepping into a new phase, growing in our ambitions and scope as Luna. Whilst it's been my absolute honour to guide us this far, I hit my limit with what I felt I could do running Women in Photo Bham by myself last year. And that's when our brilliant community stepped in to not just prop me up but re-energise everything we are about. We have a new committee (@rachelsegalhamilton @gamangari @maria_reaney @rebeccamorleans @jaskirtdhaliwalboora @marta_kochanek more on these fab women soon!) and we are working towards making Luna an unincorporated association. Our purpose remains the same, to serve the community of women photographers in Birmingham and the wider W.Midlands region. With a team and committee to share the workload we're now aiming to scale up our opportunities, exhibitions and projects. The socials will remain a staple of what we do, expect to see a lot of new faces leading them! Thank you to everyone that has supported us so far, and I hope you continue to do so going forward. More exciting announcements next week, for now let's enjoy the snow 🌨️ ❄️ Jaskirt xx Logo design @marta_kochanek

Last post of the year: Portraits, a few accidental double exposures, and quite possibly triple exposures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #film #filmphotography #shotonfilm #mediumformat #120mm

India in 35mm. Shot on expired film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . #filmphotography #35mm #shotonfilm #travel #film

Observations on medium format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed by @jandastudiosheffield #mamiya #120mm #shotonfilm #filmphotography