Grace Gelder is a photographer, arts educator and PhD candidate at Sheffield Hallam University. Her personal work is inspired by human interactions, encounters, stories and performance and she enjoys the process of working in new contexts and locations; participating when she can in artist residencies and commissions. She regularly collaborates with practitioners from other fields and her practice continually explores the relational space between herself as photographer and those who are in front of the camera, highlighting the ways in which the process influences and shapes not only the images produced but people’s personal authorship and relation to their image. This approach extends into her facilitation work where for over 16 years she has created a range of workshops and courses for organisations including: Tate, Wellcome Collection, The V&A, The Photographers Gallery, Horniman Museum and more. She also has extensive experience delivering socially engaged, community and arts & health projects for people of all ages and backgrounds, working with Greater London Authority, Brixton House & South London & Maudsley Hospital, Age UK and various local councils. She co-founded Photography and Narrative Therapy with Poh Lin Lee and Young Photographers London to develop photography workshops and courses for young people.

She been a visiting lecturer for: University of the Arts London, Royal College of Art, UCL, Westminster University, University of New Mexico and Mongolian State University of Arts and Culture