BIOGRAPHY
Sonia Bhamra is an award winning, multi-disciplined visual artist from Birmingham, U.K. She graduated with a BA (Hons) Fine Art degree from Birmingham City University. She uses the photographic medium to create visual metaphors that address social and environmental issues. Her inspiration stems from contemporary situations, which she further explores, and creates new ways to view the world in its current climate, inviting the viewer to look at the world as it is but from another point of view.
In 2019 Sonia was selected as 1 of 8 contestants, chosen from 7000 applicants across Europe, (U.K, Italy, Germany, Ireland and Austria) to be part of the largest photography competition for Sky Arts Master of Photography 2019. Sky Arts Master of Photography 4
“I define my art as painting with photography, creative and conceptual storytelling in a documentary way. My work is inspired by conceptualism and surrealism which often centres themes that I feel need awareness, such as anthropological stressors on the planet and global social challenges. I am interested in communicating topics that we may have become desensitised too, in new and compelling ways. I believe when art is aligned to a certain cause then it becomes a visual arm to bring about change”
EXHIBITIONS
2023
EARTH PHOTO 2023 “Save Our Forests’ Earth Photo exhibition, opening at the Royal Geographical Society, in London, from 17 June to 23 August 2023 , and five Forestry England sites across the country, from 23 June 2023 to 28 January 2024.
The exhibition will also tour to the Sidney Nolan Trust, Herefordshire, from 13 July to 30 September 2023, the Lost Gardens of Heligan, Cornwall, from 1 February 2024 to 1 March 2024
Lishui International Photography Festival, China in December 2023.
2022
DECADE OF CHANGE | British Journal of Photography ‘Dressed In Excess’ The winning works will be exhibited as part of a touring exhibition, starting off at City Quays Gallery as part of Belfast Photo Festival, from 03 June to 04 September 2022.
InCadaqués x British Journal of Photography photo festival, Spain, September – October 2022
2021
British Journal of Photography | EDITION 365 Two winning images ‘The Last Iceberg’ and ‘Stuck in Plastic’ selected by 1854 and British Journal of Photography in collaboration with New Art City, welcome to Edition365: a portrait of the year that changed everything. Immersive digital exhibition.
2019
ImageNation - Paris Photo Off ‘Fragments’ selected for International photo expo at Galerie Joseph Le Marais, Paris 8-10 November 2019.
Atlas of Humanity - Paris Photo Off ‘Breaking the mould’ at Atlas of Humanity photo expo at Galerie Joseph Le Marais, Paris 8-10 November 2019.
ARTICLES/PRESS
THE TIMES Earth Photo: the changing face of our precious planet
Foto Femme United The Illusion of Separation
Sony World Photography Awards “The Last Iceberg” Pick of the pics | World photography Organisation.