Lydia Goldblatt is a British documentary and art photographer, based in London. Lydia’s work has an intimacy and warmth that draws the viewer into her world. Her work creatively fuses both documentary and constructed photography through her photographic techniques and way of seeing the world; using photography’s primary characteristics of light, time and surface.

Lydia’s intimate portraits and details of the human form are combined with enigmatic still life and abstract constructions. Working on long term personal projects as well as for editorial and commercial clients, Lydia has published two books and has won a number of prestigious photography awards and residencies.

Her work is held in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, V&A Museum, National Art Library, Elton John Private Collection and The Women’s Library.

Selected Awards and Residencies
2020 Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, for her portrait ‘Eden’, from the series Fugue 
2020 GRAIN Projects Award
2016 Florence Trust Artist in Residence
2014 Awarded Grand Prix, Tokyo International Photography Festival Award
2014 Lensculture Exposure Awards
2012 Magenta Flash Forwards Award, USA
2012 Ben Uri Museum, International Jewish Artist of the Year