JOEL REDMAN

Joel Redman (b. 1974) is a contemporary artist whose work focuses on communities, climate change and the environment. After Joel’s photographs have been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery and the Royal Academy of Arts and he was shortlisted for the International Photographer of the year at the Lucie Awards.

Joel works nationally and internationally. His work considers landscapes and the people who inhabit them, revealing this complex relationship through a combination of intimate detail and sweeping panorama.   Joel has been led around the world in his search for subjects, from the deserts of North America and South-American rainforests to the Arctic Circle or the Highlands of Scotland.

In his commercial work, Joel has published work with The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Observer, The Telegraph, Der Spiegle, Focus Magazine, Monocle Magazine, GEO Magazine, Suddeutsche Zeitung Magazine, The Ford Foundation, BBC, DFIDD, Orange, Zurich,

For many years, Joel has worked closely with the charity If Not Us Then Who producing a body of work that highlights the role of indigenous peoples in protecting our planet, as well as several self-directed and, commissioned projects that reflect on the climate crises. These stories have included work on the fresh water crisis in Cape Town, South Africa, the impact of industry and a proposed railway on the indigenous Sami people within the Arctic, and the issues facing local and indigenous forest communities and their essential work in conserving these habitats.