About

Jooney Woodward is an award-winning British photographer based in London, who studied at Camberwell College of Arts.

Her work has been published and exhibited worldwide. In 2011 she was awarded First Prize in the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery with her portrait Harriet and Gentleman Jack. In 2023 she was commissioned by King’s College Cambridge, to photograph 50 Years of Women at King’s, a solo exhibition of 50 portraits which was exhibited in their iconic Chapel and now forms part of their permanent art collection.

“My driving force is to take photographs that reveal and remind us of the joy in being human.” 

Commissions include Architectural Digest, AFAR, American Vogue, Apollo, British Vogue, Burberry, Christie’s Magazine, Departures, Dwell, ELLE Decoration, Esquire, The Fader, Financial Times, Gentleman’s Journal, GQ, The Guardian, House & Garden, ICON, Jamie Magazine, King’s College Cambridge, M Le magazine du Monde, NUVO, Observer Magazine, Royal Academy of Arts, San Miguel, Smithsonian, Soho House, Surface, T: The New York Times, Tatler, TIME, Telegraph Magazine, Travel + Leisure, The Times, Vanity Fair, Waddington Custot, The Wall Street Journal and The Wellcome Trust.

Awards

  • Portrait of Britain 2020 Shortlisted
  • Portrait of Humanity 2020 Shortlisted
  • American Photography 32 2016 Winner
  • Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2015
  • Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2014
  • PX3 Paris Photography Prize 2014
  • Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2013
  • Creative Review Photography Annual 2012
  • The Photography Award. London Awards for Art and Performance 2012 Winner
  • Magenta Flash Forward Emerging Photographers 2012 Winner
  • The AOP Open Awards 2012
  • Foto8 Summershow 2012
  • The Art of Photography Show 2012
  • Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2011 First Prize
  • The AOP Open Awards 2011

Selected Exhibitions