Josephine Espinosa
I work primarily as a photographer, alongside various mediums including painting, drawing, collage and print. Currently I am studying for a BA in Art & Design from the University of Leeds, in my final year continuing to build my portfolio of work. I shoot both in digital and on film, and work part-time as a student photographer for the Gryphon Newspaper, often shooting at gigs alongside my fine art photography.
My work is very much documentary-style; I rarely work within a studio and my process is simply grabbing my camera and going walking, capturing the essence of the outdoors and the people around me who live within these spaces. Through photography, I can be intimate with the world and reality around me, outside the bubble of the artists’ studio.
This photograph is from a series I shot in September called ‘Student Street’, showing various houses of students in their homes’ outdoor gardens and patios, looking at the domestic spaces we are inhabiting during the pandemic. Emphasising the importance of these spaces as sanctuaries, but also their duplicitous nature, as they cause us to feel more trapped than ever by being pushed further inside our homes.