Jo de Banzie is a London-based photographic artist whose practice centres on historic and experimental photographic processes, employed to explore themes of trauma, war, memory, and loss. Her technique is process-led and conceptual, drawing on chemigrams, archive material, oral history, and the imagined to build visual narratives that give form to things unseen. Chance and serendipity are
deliberate elements of her method, qualities she considers essential to work rooted in memory and imagination. Her perspective is explicitly female, and her work often carries a commemorative intent, combining rigorous historical research with a poetic, material sensibility.
Her work is held in the National Art Library Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and she has been recognised with a Gold Medal from the Royal Horticultural Society for botanical photography in 2021. She has been selected for the Royal Photographic Society's International Photography Exhibition and has undertaken multiple arts residencies at the Pouch Cove Foundation in Newfoundland as well as residencies in Romney Marsh and London. Her photobook L'Enfer, documenting the landscape of the First World War battlefields through silver gelatin chemigrams, was acquired by the V&A in 2019.
De Banzie holds an MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography with Distinction from the London College of Communication, and is a Fellow of both the British Institute of Professional Photographers and the Master Photographers Association.
