Melanie Wagner's photography

Children stand on old fashioned gypsy wagonMany of the photographs on this website were commissioned from Melanie Wagner, a freelance photographer specialising in fine art documentary photography. 

Melanie graduated with a first class honours degree from Central Saint Martins University of the Arts in 2005 where she trained as a multidisciplinary image-maker. 

Melanie Wagner stands in front of her photographs of London travellersHer final year photography project Traveltopia: London’s Romany Community was funded by Arts Council England.  Traveltopia turned into a photography exhibition held at London’s National Theatre in 2006. The show travelled on to Tapestry Gallery in London, Opera North in Leeds and the Babylon Cinema and Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Berlin.

A Bondo mother and child in very bright clothingTribes of Orissa is a series of images from south-east India. The pictures document the indigenous population in tribal areas of that region. Her images were part of the  International Photograpy Exhibition in Kyoto, Japan and Bilderbank in Perg, Austria in 2007.

Melanie also takes on photography-related commercial design briefs. She created pillowcases for John Lewis  using photo collage technique for the project Dreamlandings, an art exhibition highlighting immigration to London.

Buttons and pills forming image of a flag with a star in the middleMelanie was born in Germany in 1981. She held her first solo exhibition in Kulmbach in 2000. She then moved to London at the age of 19 to study Art and Design and has lived and worked there ever since.

 

To see more of Melanie's work, visit www.melaniewagner.com