Jacqueline McCullough is a socially engaged artist who photographs and explores topics around identity, loss and displacement. Drawn to tales of chronic adversity and the under represented, she is inspired by the capacity for human emotional survival and resilience.
Drawn to this subject by her own personal experience as the daughter of a foster carer; she tackles this delicate topic with compassion, understanding, and often humour.
Originally from a small seaside town in the North East of England, Jacqueline moved to London to pursue a career within the music industry. In 2004, after eight years of working as a Personal Assistant and desperate for a change in direction, she took some time out to travel. After attending a course at the RMIT in Melbourne, she purchased a mint-condition Minolta and began her photographic journey.
Returning to the UK to study in 2006 she moved cities again and set up home once again by the seaside. She now lives in Brighton with a small feisty black dog.
Although her work varies in style and content, it engages with similar themes. So Much Past is a portrait project about foster care and adoption. The subjects range from social workers to foster parents, sons/daughters of fosters carers to children in care. The resulting portraits emerge out of a dialogue between the subject and photographer. The subject of What Makes A House A Home? is a residential children’s home. This work documents depopulated interior spaces. The viewer is offered images of every day domestic life; laundry, the pet fish, a messy bedroom. Sarah is an intimate story of love and grief of losing contact with a foster-sibling after they have moved on.
Jacqueline was shortlisted for Photographer of the Year at The Guardian Student Media Awards 2009.
Jacqueline enjoys travelling, meeting people and telling stories. She is part of photographic collective The Lyrical & The Ordinary.
“Photography gives me a voice that I don’t have with words. It allows me to tell stories.”
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