Booker T Skelding she/her
70s kid
Mother, Carer, Photographer, LGBTQ Ally
 

Booker is a neurodivergent, Welsh and English speaking contemporary photographer. She uses the photographic lens to document and process profound life events exploring how photography can be used to express emotions, to heal and to move forward through adversity.
She explains, ‘the process of taking the camera out and connecting with a scene is a form of therapy, my projects have a very strong personal narrative’.

 

From a young age Booker spent many weekends with her grandfather, watching him make images with his Pentax ME SLR. This fascination with the camera and its results led Booker to enrol on a photography course at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, after which she built a small dark room in her attic and began developing her own prints. 

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In 2015 Booker left her career in the police service and eventually enrolled at the University of South Wales to study photography, where she was awarded a BA (Hons) 1st class and the Reginald Salisbury Award for Outstanding Achievement in BA Photography. 

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Booker has won several awards including Gold in the Visit Wales Photographic Travel Competition: ‘Year of the Seas 2018.'

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