Sophie Ellen Lachowycz • info@sophieellen.co.uk
Suffolk, Norfolk & London, UK
Sophie Ellen is an award-winning fashion and portrait photographer, published and exhibited internationally.
Her work utilises a feminine aesthetic, inspired by unique beauty and strength. With a meticulous eye for detail, her work is experimental across digital, analogue and polaroid imagery. Working within womenswear, Sophie builds connections with subjects and teams; generating creative imagery for fashion editorial, look book, campaign and portraiture. Parallel to her commercial work, Sophie executes personal projects fusing her fashion aesthetic and personal stories.
Alongside her professional practice, Sophie is a lecturer in photography and fashion communication. Her teaching experience spans across further and higher education, as a visiting lecturer and course director.
Selected Clients: The Photographers' Gallery . Curated Hair . Gainsborough's House . Delores Daywear . FABLETICS & Feels Be Discovered . Tuğcan Dökmen . VAE Hair . Drop Dead Clothing . Sandra Reynolds . Workhouse Clothing . Olympus UK . Models 1 .
Selected Publications: Harper's Bazaar . The Opéra Magazine . Der Grief . We Are Magazine . Too Tired Project . SHOTS Magazine . A.R.T Magazine . FotoNostrum Magazine . Hairdressers Journal . Uncertain States . Mote Paper . Design Scene . Liike Magazine . Sister Magazine . BLK CLR Magazine . Bricks Magazine . Stories Collective . In Clover Magazine . Material Girl Magazine . Satellite Journal . ZEUM Magazine . Practical Photography Magazine .
Books: Portrait of Britain Volumes 2 & 5, published by Hoxton Mini Press & Blue Coat Press . 209 Women, published by Blue Coat Press.
Selected Awards & Exhibitions: Procreate Project Archive: Jack Arts / Build Hollywood digital display, Holland Park.
Barcelona Foto Biennale of Fine Art & Documentary Photography, FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona.
Grant for Analogue Photography awarded by the Richard and Siobhan Coward Foundation.
Alternative Processes category series Winner, 20th Pollux Awards.
'Open 23/24' Shutter Hub, Art at the ARB, Cambridge University.
Women Seen By Women category series Winner, 18th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards.
Advertising / Fashion category series Winner, 18th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards.
The Luupe, 2023 Visions of Motherhood.
'Hired Hands', LCH, The Apex Gallery.
'Pause For Thought' Original Magazine & Art At Work, Norwich.
'Your Body Belongs To You' Shutter Hub, Les Alizes, France.
'SALON19' Members show at PhotoFusion, one of four artists chosen to be awarded an additional group exhibition.
'Portrait Salon 19', exhibited at Royal Photographic Society and Photo North Festival.
'Portrait of Britain' winner, The British Journal of Photography & JCDecaux (nationwide).
'Representation on the Line: (un)Framing our Identities' Hundred Heroines for The Royal Photographic Society, Chelsea, London. Phase 1 (1 of 24 photographers) for Photo London; Phase 2 (1 of 89 photographers) for Kensington & Chelsea Art Weekend.
'Everything I Ever Learnt' Shutter Hub, Art at the ARB, Cambridge University.
209 Women, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool.
209 Women, Portcullis House; Houses of Parliament, London.
Royal Photographic Society's 156th International Print Exhibition (touring).
Other: BBC Radio Suffolk Interview . 'Best Of' Photo Vogue by Vogue Italia (including 'Photo of the Day') . Artist talk(s) at Norwich University of the Arts, PhotoFusion, University of Cambridge and The Photographers' Gallery . Images Displayed at London Fashion Week and Paris Fashion Week . Pro Photographer Loan of Olympus camera equipment .