Biography
Lucy Levene is a London based artist who completed her MA at the RCA in 2004. Publications include 'Regeneration; 50 Photographers of Tomorrow' (Thames & Hudson) and 'In Our World, New Photography in Britain' (Skira). Her work has been featured in magazines and blogs such as ‘The New Yorker’, ‘Hotshoe’, ‘Portfolio Magazine’, and ‘The Guardian’. Editorially she has produced work for the Saturday Telegraph Magazine, The Guardian Weekend Magazine and the Sunday Times Magazine. In 2012 she was selected as a winner both of Magenta’s Flash Forward award and of the inaugural 1000 Words Photography prize for European Photographers.
‘My work explores the boundaries of documentary and conceptual photography. Using flash and it’s blanket reveal, I attempt some form of objective democracy. I am interested in Brechtian ideas which foreground the means of construction, and in the subsequent slippage between documentary and artifice within photography. I use photography to question the narratives that we construct daily. As a third generation British Jew, my main interest in terms of subject matter is in assimilation; in communities and how they define themselves.’