Grace Gelder

Grace Gelder lives in London where she works as a photographer and workshop facilitator. After completing an MA in Documentary Photography in China, she has been facilitating participatory photography workshops with a range of groups, often collaborating with charities and organisations that support women’s empowerment and well-being. Since a story about her Self Marriage ceremony unexpectedly went viral in 2014 she has been bringing her love of ritual, self-awareness, compassion and learning from her global media adventure into her photographic projects. She continues to share her self marriage story in the media, at live events and in writing. Her photographic work promotes acceptance of the body in all forms, and her private portrait commissions utilise therapeutic techniques, a process she describes as “seeing with care”.