About

Cailin Edwards and Er Productions Ltd

Cailin Edwards.

Pronouns She/her

Formely Ben Edwards

 

As an assistant printer to William Hayter at Atelier 17 Paris, a post graduate student at the Royal Academy of Arts and a ATC (PG cert in HE equivalent) from Goldsmiths  London University, led onto Cailin sharing a print studio in Wapping with Chris Orr (former Professor of Printmaking at the Royal College of Art). All came before Cailin ever thought of photography.  By the mid eighties Cailin had exchanged his etching presses and paint brushes for Leica’s and Nikon F3’s.  This has taken Cailin on an extraordinary journey working all over the world working for: BBC, The Independent, Guardian, Observer, National Geographic, Associated Press, Reuters, Creative Camera and Commercially for Cable and Wireless, Abbot Meade Vickers and many others. Cailin has had his work in just about every publication globally. Ben’s commercial agents are and have been TonyStone/Gettyimages, ImpactPhotos, Corbis, Brand X and Blendimages.com, that Cailin is a founder member.

Cailin is the Director of Er Productions Ltd that he founded in the nineties for Stills and film production.

Cailin’s current practice has diversified into documentary and commercial film making and protracted high altitude walking projects in the Himalayas and around Britain and supplying Blendimages.com and Gettyimages.com with commercial medical imagery from his unique access over the last twenty three years in the renowned  Medical Center, Houston, Texas: 

 St Joseph Hospital,

MD Anderson,

Ben Taub,

Hermann Memorial,

Baylor  

St Lukes.

Until the end of 2016 Cailin was Course leader on MA Documentary Photography and Photojournalism, University of Westminster, London making it one of the most attended and successful Documentary Photographic MA’s in the country with a robust international reputation. Cailin retired as a senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster on MA Documentary Photography and Photojournalism in 2018.

Cailin has also been a visiting lecturer in Photographic UG and PG courses in the UK and a visiting Lecturer at JMI New Delhi, as well as an  UG external examiner.

Cailin has previously assisted his mentor Peter Norton in painting and etching summer workshops and latterly Directed and run summer camp music workshops in Cubertou France, with his partner Jane Orr, working with the late John Renbourn and very much alive Clive Carroll.

Cailin work is in notable public collections in the UK; Victoria and Albert Museum and Public collections in the USA: MOMA Houston, Texas and various other public collections in the UK and abroad. Cailin’s work has been exhibited widely; National Museum of Photography film and television and his photographs have been in mixed shows with Mona Hartoum, Andres Serrano, Helen Chadwick, Hannah Starkey, Clare Strand…

Cailin other life is his family, classical guitar (currently working towards ARSM Diploma) and competitive tennis.Cailin was a yoga instructor trained by Iyengar in Poona and is an enthusiastic raconteur and storyteller…

Cailin is currently studying ‘Person Centred Therapy on a MSc at the Metanoia institute London.

 

Individual Tuition

Should you be seeking individual tuition here or worldwide in any of the following areas please contact Cailin.

  • Portfolio review;
  • Preparing for photographic exam;
  • University Undergraduate and Postgraduate applications;
  • Photographic job application;
  • Individual tuition, Mentorship;
  • Advising partnering and mentoring Photographic projects in the UK and Worldwide;
  • Talks and presentations.

Please contact Cailin to discuss your projects and ideas.

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