I am a photographer, content producer and educator, currently based in Hastings. I am known for my photograph's of London and it’s music culture and for her events and blogging. My activity includes talks, workshops & participatory projects, and installation.
My work engages with themes of music, community, home, environment, multiculturalism and youth-culture.
I have exhibited an installation titled “Who Wants A Rewind?” at Tate Modern (curated by Stance Podcast), had a solo show on Carnaby Street and group shows in London, Bristol, Sweden and NYC. My work has been published in places like Vice, Red Bull Music, Dazed, FACT and The Guardian.
I frequently lecture and speak on Youth Culture, Photography, Grime Music and Event organisation at places such as UCLA LCC, Anglo Educational Services and DV8 Sussex.
In 2018, I was invited by Youth Club Archive to talk about my music photography and related culture at the V&A and has previously participated in a UCL Urban Laboratory Workshop about creativity in the suburbs.
My seminal blog Drumz Of The South was established in 2004 as a means to sharing photography, interviews and other information about South London music & culture, with an emphasis on the then newly emerging Dubstep scene. Seen and read by thousands of people around the world, the blog contributed to the growth of Dubstep from a small suburban music scene to a globally recognised genre.
I frequently work on photography and visual communication with record labels including Keysound Recordings and Souljazz. I have written articles on music and culture for print publications in the UK, Portugal and France.
I have facilitated community Photography, Photoshop, video and t-shirt making workshops for Deptford based charity Artefacts with under 16’s, Over 50’s and young people not in education or employment.
From 2012-2015 I ran a community-focused cafe and venue programming a diverse range of music, art and ecology events, exhibitions and workshops with local artists, makers & groups as well as the wider community. This included an annual concentrated weekend programme of music, art and film as part of The Crystal Palace festival.
Other public and participatory projects include Mapping The Palace - a project mapping local’s memories of Crystal Palace at a time of change in the area, The Free Cafe - a mobile cafe facilitating & recording on street conversations with the public about public space and an exploration into alternative economies via a bartering event.
I have been a guest and/or featured on Radio Primavera Sound talking about my relationship to London music, harkaran.com, Time Out London, BBC Collective Sound of Dubstep documentary and Le Cool and consult on subjects such as photography of Pirate Radio Stations and zines and one-off publications about underground music.
I am currently working with Youth Club Archive to ensure that the best of my music documentary work is publicly archived and as an independent photographer and artist locally and nationally.
Projects
- Hideout Festival"Georgina Cook runs the excellent Drumz of the South blog, and takes photos for FACT and more. Turn to page 2 to view Georgina’s photos from Hideout 2014. I spent the first 24 hours walking around Croatia’s holiday brochure-beautiful Island of Pag thinking it was Topshop by Sea, dodging the new wave Brits abroad and slipping on bits of kebab."
- The Antenna Cafe Thing"thing [thing, ting] noun (in Scandinavian countries) a public meeting or assembly Origin: 1830–40; Old Norse: assembly; cognate with thing, Dutch ding, German Ding thing, orig., meeting;akin to Gothic theihs time Based at Antenna Studios, we are an event led café whose name - “café thing” can be traced to Iceland, where the first democratic public meeting places were formed. With no political (or religious) affiliations, the café centres offers somewhere for the local community and beyond to eat, drink, talk, relax, work and play." http://cafething.tumblr.com I managed the cafe from 2012-2014 creating an event-led space with a focus on ecology. Events ranged from live music with Jono Mcleery, to poetry and science talks. As well as recruitment and daily operations, I managed the social media and promotions, some of the graphic design for events and overall branding of the cafe.
- GEORGINA COOK IS HERE - The highly clickable website of Georgina CookI wanted to create a personal website that brings together my event, photography and personal projects. I used Squarespace to create a front page that gives an overview of my work and tells an ongoing story. Most of the images and text on the front page link to pages on the website or external pages about me and my work. The navigation menu and search bar make it easy for people to find specific projects or types of work.
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Work history
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PhotographerGeorgina Cook Photography
Hastings, United KingdomFreelance
- Event, Portrait and Editorial Photography in Hastings, London and anywhere with a good story or great people.
- Mostly on location, with musician's and music producers, singers, artist's, creative business owners, record labels, publication's and event promoters.
- Concept formation or art direction. E.g - I help clients to work out what how they want themselves or their music/art to be represented and then we go about making that happen.
Also:
- Licensing images from my extensive archive of photography about the early Dubstep, Grime & Drum n Bass scenes & alternative images of London.
- Selling prints via my online store
- Updating my Squarespace website with new work and blogposts
- Pitching stories to publication's or writers with a view to collaboration
- + the everyday, unglamorous side of Photography which includes admin and accounting.
Client's include: FACT / Vice / RBMA / The Guardian & Observer / BBC / The Times / The Village Voice / Art Forum / Qvest / Dazed & Confused / Converse / XLR8R / Time Out / Shoes Up / Tsugi / R.A / Knowledge / Groove / Taz / Trap / Hyperdub / Burial / Souljazz / Tempa / DMZ / MoS / The Society for Curious Thought / UCL Urban Laboratory / Caught By The River / Ashes57 / LAVA
Visiting PractitionerLondon College of Communication, UAL
- London, United KingdomFreelance
Visiting Practitioner on the BA Graphic Media Design Course at LCC - supporting a module about Grime and Photography & it's related event at Corsica Studio's.
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Skills
- Visual Arts
- Commercial Photography
- Photojournalism
- Picture Editing
- Digital Content
- Editing
- Blogs
- Blogging
- Editorial
- Producing
- Web Content
- Photoshop
- Lecturing
- Event
- Events Production
- Events Programming
- Web Design
- Squarespace
- Adobe Create Suite
- Digital Photography
- Concept
- Narrative
- Photography
- Public Speaking
Education
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First Degree BA (hons) Fine Art with Combined MediaCroydon School Of Art
- Croydon, United Kingdom
Continuing to use photography, I learnt how to think and work conceptually with narratives. Experiments with sculptural photography, Polaroid, video and installation.