Camilla Brown trained as an art historian completing her BA studying with Professor Griselda Pollock at Leeds University she then studied for her MA at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She is a curator, writer and lecturer on contemporary art, specialising in photography. For ten years she was Senior Curator at The Photographers’ Gallery, London where she worked with a wide range of artists including: Sally Mann; Dryden Goodwin; Ori Gersht. She also curated shows by Walker Evans and Garry Winogrand. Previous to this she was Exhibitions Curator at Tate Liverpool where she curated solo exhibitions, worked on the first Liverpool Biennale and curated shows from the Tate Collection.
Since 2012 she has held an academic post as Senior Lecturer in Creative Industries at Middlesex University, she now runs an MA Photography focussing on social documentary practice. She is also an External Examiner for MA Photography at the University of Gloucestershire. She also teaches on photography theory modules at MA and BA level.
She has been Associate Curator at GRAIN an Arts council funded photography organisation who commissions photography. In 2020 she worked with 11 photographers making work on the 'Rural' across the Midlands in the UK and wrote an essay for the monograph produced. She has also chaired their 'State of Photography' conference at Birmingham City University several times.
She regularly writes for artists monographs on photographers work and contributes to history of photography books. She has also been featured in books about her curatorial practice including Image Takers, Image Makers Thames and Hudson.
