Etienne Bruce (b. 1988, UK) is an Anglo-French visual artist, editorial photographer and educator currently based in London, UK.

Her project-based work is a form of documentation driven by an engagement with the nature of the photographic image, which often includes an element of recording oral histories.

A preoccupation with the relationship between form and content has led her to embrace different modes of expression including text, movement, sound, space, sequence and literary forms as portals through which to re-examine documentary image-making practice and embrace its inherent ambiguity.

Through her work, Etienne seeks to challenge her perceptions and reinterpret things as she understands them while always striving to engage respectfully and collaboratively with the people and stories that are central to her practice.

Etienne is a member of Women Photograph, she is Education & Training Manager at The Photography Foundation, and her book Xenitia was published by Zone6 Press in 2023.

Etienne is available for freelance editorial, portrait and reportage commissions, as well as workshop facilitation, curriculum development, talks and portfolio reviews.



EDUCATION

2021 The University of Greenwich, PGCE (LL). specialising in photography
2016 London College of Communication, MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography, Distinction

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2023 TAF Athens, Refugee Week Greece, Xenitia
2022 Four Corners Gallery, Fathom
2022 Photo Scratch at the Photographer’s Gallery
2022 Prepress at the Bottle Factory, Xenitia
2017 Beyond Borders curated by Max Houghton in collaboration with the Refugee Journalism Project, Xenitia
2017 South on Film at Buster Mantis, Refugee Blues
2016 Invisible Edge, Ugly Duck Gallery, Xenitia
2012 The Brick Box & @no3, selected works

 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS / PRESS

2022 Equal Lens: Featured Artist
2019 Fleur & Arbor: How I Got My Job - Etienne Bruce
2016 BBC Powerful Picture Stories featured artist
2016 Something Curated: Highlights From LCC’s MA Photojournalism & Documentary Photography Graduate Show
2016 Feature Shoot: Photos Reflect on Migration in Greece
2016 UAL: Spotlight on MA Photography and MA Photojournalism & Documentary Photography // LCC Postgraduate Shows 2016
2016 Dazed: Getting to know the people behind the Calais Jungle’s fences

 AWARDS

2022 Fathom 6-month artist support programme at Four Corners Gallery
2022 Membership, Women Photograph
2018 Plat(t)form – Fotomuseum Winterthur 2018 nominee
2016 Trolley Books Best Book Award at MAPJD Final show, awarded by Hannah Watson

TALKS

2024 Photojournalism Hub, Riverside Studios
2022 Artist Panel Discussion, Climate Home for We Are Lewisham
2020 Artist talk, Thomas Tallis School
2018 Farside Collective, Xenitia
2018 Kashmir Art Quest, Xenitia
2015 University of Southern California (USC) Lecturer: guest artist lecturer, Visual Communication and Social Change course