Sophie Gerrard

Gerrard was born in 1978 in Edinburgh.[1] She graduated from Manchester University in 1999 as an environmental scientist. Her interest in environmental and social issues led her to obtain a photography degree from Edinburgh College of Art and a M.A in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography from the London College of Communication in 2006.[2]

Gerrard is a documentary photographer who has won the Jerwood Photography Award, the Fuji Film Bursary and the Magenta Foundation Award.[3] In 2012, she co-founded Document Scotland with Colin McPherson, Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert and Stephen McLaren.[3] Her work has been featured regularly in The Guardian Weekend Magazine, the Financial Times Magazine, the Telegraph Saturday Magazine, the Independent on Sunday, Save The Children and Greenpeace International.[2] "Drawn To The Land" which she started in 2012 is an ongoing project examining the importance of representation, the project documents the lives of female hill farmers who work in a predominantly male sector.[4]

• Tunnock's. Southport: Café Royal, 2015. Edition of 150 copies.
• Document Scotland. Southport: Café Royal, 2015. A zine each by Gerrard (Tunnock's), Sutton-Hibbert (North Sea Fishing), McLaren (Dookits) and McPherson (Sancta Maria Abbey, Nunraw), in a case. Edition of 50 copies.

• Seeing Ourselves, Fotospace Gallery, Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland, June–July 2013.[9][10][11]
• Document Scotland: The Ties that Bind, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 2015 – April 2016.[12][13] Included Drawn to the Land by Gerrard.[14]
• Document Scotland, Beyond the Border: New Contemporary Photography from Scotland, Impressions Gallery, Bradford, UK, July–September 2014;[15][16] Granary Gallery, Berwick Visual Arts, Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK, February–May 2017.[17] Curated by Anne McNeill.[18]