Charlie Valentine is a multi-disciplinary Photographer and Printmaker based in Nottingham, UK. Charlie has years of industry experience, working in both fashion, commercial and product photography studios across the East & West Midlands.
Charlie studied Fine Art Foundation at Loughborough University and has a First Class Degree in Commercial Photography from the University of Derby.
In 2021 Charlie was selected as the winner of the FORMAT Photography Graduate Award.
Charlie currently works as a Darkroom Technician and has a strong personal interest in analogue Street Photography. Charlie’s personal work aims to document and reimagine the mundane, investigating the banality of everyday life through image capture and printmaking. Through a combination of abstract, architectural and street photography and print, Charlie’s artwork seeks to reveal the charm of the ordinary, reframing the monotonous nature of day-to-day life.
Charlie is available for Wedding Photography upon request.
AWARDS
Nominated – RBSA Photography Prize 2025
Winner – FORMAT International Photography Festival Graduate Award 2021
EXHIBITIONS
2025, RBSA Gallery, Birmingham UK: RBSA Photography Prize
2025, Dark Peak Photography Festival, Glossop UK
2025, Metaspace Gallery, Merseyside UK: Contrast 3! Online Exhibition
2025, Turntable Gallery, Grimsby UK: Unloud Group Exhibition
2025, Float Magazine, US: Whispering Shadows Online Exhibition
2025, Surface Gallery, Nottingham UK: International Postcard Exhibition
PUBLICATIONS
2025, Artsin Square, International: 5x7 Artist Book Project
2025, Metaspace Gallery, Merseyside UK: Contrast 3! Magazine