CJ Crosland Photography

About

CJ Crosland is a self-taught artist and photographer who uses whatever experiences life brings, and seeks to capture the essence of their individual experience and the powerful emotions which are central to it. 
Their work has been described as exploratory, introspective, poetic and powerful.

CJ Crosland has shown work in the following exhibitions:
- Surrey Open Art (2012)
- Surrey Open Photography Exhibition (2014 & 2017)
- London Independent Photography Annual Exhibitions (2012 & 2014)
- We Are LGBT (London, 2015)
- When Death Comes (Bristol, 2015)
- Loudest Whispers (London, 2016 & 2017)
- Hit The Road by The Photocopy Club (Poland, 2016)
- The Impossible Image by The Photocopy Club (Belgium, 2016)

CJ has had work published in several editions of London Independent Photography’s “fLIP” magazine.

Most images are available as prints - see the Sales page for further details.

Books:
"Mind Games" - available from Blurb: http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/4166908-mind-games
"Playing With Perception" - New 2017 edition now available. For more details, send me a message via the Contact page or email to photos@cjcrosland.com

You Tube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz6Gi1QAHjjI0v_Zbpl3QaA

Bio

 

Cam Crosland is a self-taught street photographer living near London, UK. Cam started out as a History graduate working as a software tester, trained in counselling for a year and then in 2010 photography became his passsion. 

Inspired by whatever life brings, Cam seeks to express the intensity and complexity of his own personal experience. Much of Cam’s work explores the contrasting and reconciling of opposites and extremes, for example looking inward versus outward, distance and dissociation versus closeness and connection. 

“Fishing with Dynamite” is a Street Photography series using off-camera flash which began in 2017. Flash provided a new way for Cam to create pictures expressing the intensity with which he experiences the world. Often the information flooding into his senses is a source of great delight but it also frequently brings them to the point of sensory overload. Flash allows Cam to shed light on things both metaphorically and literally, enhancing and even imparting a sense of the cinematic and dramatic. Most of all, it’s about energy.

Cam has produced several publications, including three “Fishing With Dynamite” zines. He has shown work in group exhibitions around the world, spoken in a Spotlight session at Street London 2018 and been a member of the judging panel for the Miami Street Photography Festival International Series competition 2022.

Cam is a member of international collective Full Frontal Flash.

Cam’s work has been described as exploratory, introspective, poetic and powerful.

Red

This image is included in the “Red” exhibition at the Blank Wall Gallery in Athens, Greece.

14th - 25th June 2024

Blurred Visions

This image is included in the Blurred Visions exhibition organised by Loosenart at Millipiani Exhibition Space in Rome, Italy.

15th - 30th May 2024.

Night Photography

Showing work in a group exhibition at Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece.

27th Oct 2023 - 7th Nov 2023.

At Blank Wall Gallery, 55 Fokionos Negri Street,
11361 - Athens - Greece

Emerald 20

Showing new work from the series “Fishing With Dynamite” in this group exhibition.

Opening Night: Friday 16th June 2023, 5:30-8pm and then open until 29th Sept 2023.

At The Arts Project, St.Pancras Hospital, London.

Pannonia Reflections

Showing work in this group exhibition opening at Gallery-Museum Lendava, Slovenia on 3rd March 2023.

The heArtspace Gallery

This image is included in the Streetphotography exhibition at The heArtspace, Ahmedabad, India, opening 29th January 2023 until mid-Feb 2023.

Group exhibitions

  • Red at Blank Wall Gallery (Athens, Greece, 2024)

  • Blurred Visions organised by Loosenart at Millipiani Exhibition Space (Rome, Italy, 2024).

  • Night Photography at Blank Wall Gallery (Athens, Greece, 2023)

  • Emerald 20 (London, UK, summer 2023)

  • Open Book Call, Photo Frome (Frome, UK, 2023)

  • Brave New World exhibition at Aussie Street Photography Festival (Sydney, Australia, 2023)

  • Street Photography at The heArtspace (Ahmedabad, India, 2023)

  • Pannonia Reflections exhibition (Gallery-Museum Lendava, Slovenia, 2023)

  • Observations Festival (Iserlohn, Germany, 2022)

  • Loudest Whispers (London, UK 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2025)

  • “The Wall” (Pafos, Cyprus, 2022, 2023 & 2025)

  • “10” by The Photocopy Club (London, UK, Dec 2021)

  • London Independent Photography Annual Exhibition (London, UK 2012, 2014, 2016 & 2017, Virtual 2020 & 2021)

  • Surrey Open Photography Exhibition (The Woking Lightbox, UK 2014 & 2017, Virtual 2020)

  • “The Art of Caring'“ (St.George’s Hospital, London, UK 2020)

  • That’s What I call Love by The Photocopy Club (Hart Club, London, UK 2019)

  • Street Photography Italy (Firenze, Italy, 2019)

  • 42 BEANS cafe (London, UK 2019)

  • London Calling by The Photocopy Club (V3 Gallery, London, UK 2018)

  • Down by The River at Observations Festival (Letmathe, Germany, 2017)

  • On The Road by The Photocopy Club (Lodz, Poland, 2016)

  • The Impossible Image by The Photocopy Club (Liege, Belgium, 2016)

  • We Are LGBT (Mary Ward Centre, London, UK 2015)

  • When Death Comes exhibition (Bristol, UK 2015)

  • Surrey Open Art Exhibition (The Woking Lightbox, UK 2012)

All images & text © CJ Crosland 2024.

Most images are available as prints. If you are interested purchasing a print or a zine or wish to use any of my images, please contact me.