Polly Braden is a photographer currently based in London. She works on long-term, self-initiated projects, as well as commissions for international publications. Her imagery is marked by an interest in the relationship between work, culture and economics. In the last year she has collaborated with journalists to produce extended photo-essays in the Middle East, China and the UK.

Her photography has appeared in The Guardian, The Saturday Telegraph magazine, Foto8, ICON, Photoworks, Frieze,The Sydney Morning Herald, D Magazine (Italy).

Recent commissions have come from UBS Bank with the London Symphony Orchestra, Tate Modern, the Barbican, Grizedale Arts, Frieze Art Fair, the National Health Service (UK) and The Arts Councils of Scotland and Wales. During the summer of 2007 she worked on new body of work whilst on an artist residency with the CEAC (Chinese European Art Centre) in Xiamen, China. This will culminate in the book China Everyday.

She teaches photography at London College of Communication.

She is a winner of the Jerwood Photography Prize (2003),The Guardian Newspaper Young Photographer of the Year (2002) and The Magenta Foundation’s Emerging Photographers prize (2007).

Polly Braden has exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (USA) Impressions Gallery (York, England), Stills Gallery (Scotland)