About
Louise Taylor is an artist and writer whose work navigates the intersections of memory, grief, and the photographic archive. Using her late father’s collection of slides, negatives, and films, she examines how loss is mediated through images—what they reveal, obscure, and leave unsettled. Her practice uncovers familial silence and withheld truths, offering insights into the fears and uncertainties that can linger from childhood after the loss of someone close to suicide.
Louise holds an MA in Photo Documentary and Photojournalism from the London College of Communication and a BA in Fine Art Film and Video from Central Saint Martins. Louise was mentored by Hope Edelman and Professor Katie Barclay. Hope Edelman is an author renowned for her work on early parent loss, and Professor Katie Barclay is an expert in the history of emotions, gender, and family life. Louise is also a graduate of Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School.
Publications
Developing Us: Photography, Family, and Feeling, a 5,000-word essay included in the anthology Inheriting the Family: Objects, Identities and Emotions, edited by Katie Barclay, Tanya Evans, Joanne Begiato, Laura King, and Ashley Barnwell, Bloomsbury Academic, February 2025.
Included in Tabloid Newsprint as part of the Work Show Grow School, United - Work Show Grow Publication, Issue 1, 2021.
Screenings
Don’t Fence Me In screened at Antenna at the NFT, London, 2005.
Don’t Fence Me In screened at the Onedotzero festival at the ICA in London in 2005.
Education
Writiing With Hope: Life writing class with Hope Edelman, Online and LA, 2022-2023.
MA Distinction in Documentary Photography, UAL, London, 2020.
BA Fine Art Film and Video, Central St. Martins, London, 2000
Selected by director Werner Herzog for the Rogue Film School, London, 2011.
Contact
l2outaylor@gmail.com