Polly Braden is renowned for her photographs of intimate communication between people, and gestures that hint at something without explaining it. Her images explore the relationship between everyday life, work, leisure and economics.
She works on long-term, self-initiated projects, and commissions for international publications. Her book China Between is published by Dewi Lewis, 2010. Her photographs appear in several books including Street Photography Now, 2010. In recent years she has collaborated with journalists to produce extended photo-essays in the UK, the Middle East, Morocco, Kenya and China. She has worked with The Guardian, The Saturday Telegraph magazine, Portfolio, ICON, Photoworks, and Frieze.
Braden has received the Jerwood Photography Prize and The Guardian Young Photographer of the Year award. She has exhibited at venues internationally including the Kunsthalle Mannheim, the Institute of Contemporary Arts London, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Format International Photography Festival, Photomonth, and the London Guildhall, the 6th Fotofestival, Mannheim.