Carol Allen-Storey is an award-winning documentary and reportage photographer specialising in chronicling complex humanitarian and social issues. In 2009 Storey was appointed a UNICEF ambassador for photography. A native New Yorker, Carol resides in London.
“My images are intimate, about issues and citizens I deeply care about. I believe photographs may not be capable of doing the moral work for us, but they can trigger the process of social consciousness”
Her oeuvre has been exhibited and published internationally. Her solo exhibitions include: ‘The AMAHORO Generation’, ‘CROSSINGS’, ‘TEENS and the Loneliness of AIDS’, ‘FRACTURED LIVES’, ‘Children of Hope’ ‘Anything Is Possible’, ‘The Vanishing Assets of Africa’ and ‘The Savagery and Poetry of Africa’.
Storey has won and shortlisted for multiple international awards. Recently she was the winner in the 2020 Julia Margaret Cameron Award for documentary and reportage through fine art. Some others include: Winner for the Color Awards 2020,first prize in the series category for the IPPA Awards 2019, 1st prize series, the Association of Photographers portrait award, finalist 2019, Lens Culture B&W award finalist, 2019, The Julia Margaret Cameron Award, nominee 2018, The IPA 2018, 2nd prize editorial, The Taylor-Wessing 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2016. 1st Prize Act of Kindness International Award, the Renaissance Award, The Moving Walls exhibition touring Europe.
Storey is a graduate with distinction of the Central St. Martins, Master Photography programme, 2000. Further degrees include BA, Syracuse University, MA Columbia University.
Someone’s Daughters
Nicki Durcan
“I’m an actor who has worked with Clean Break since 2013. Clean Break is a women’s theatre company which helps women in prison. Through theatre workshops and mental health support workshops both in prisons and in the wider community, Clean Break works to support and stand by the women have been failed by the criminal justice system. After being involved with Turning Point, a social enterprise providing support to people who suffer with drug and alcohol use related issues, I was referred to Clean Break. The vital work Clean Break has been doing for 40 years has inspired me to take further action to help my wider community.
In March 2020, I set up a food bank in East London during lockdown. It runs on Tuesday and Saturday and serves the East London area. This has been extremely gratifying and I hope to expand the food bank in the near future.
Working for the community, particularly for formerly incarcerated women and young offenders, is very important to me so when my friend invited me to take part in Someone’s Daughter, I was delighted. Although I had heard about The View magazine prior to this, I wasn’t fully aware of what The View did. However, I’d looked into The View more thoroughly, I was more than convinced I had to take part.
Taking part in Someone’s Daughter was initially daunting. Although I have had my photo taken before, I definitely needed direction. Carol Allen Storey made me feel so comfortable. Sharing my story with her was really empowering and freeing. I suffered from a heart attack in November and surgery was required. Having a heart attack at such a young age made me really reconsider life but taking part in such a significant meaningful project made me realise how anything was possible. I felt hopeful for myself and hopeful for change. “
Caitlin Davies
“Prison is used to control, silence and punish women”
Caitlin Davies is a London-born novelist, non-fiction writer and journalist. She is the author of Bad Girls: A History of Rebels and Renegades, the first full history of Holloway Prison, Europe’s most infamous female jail. She was the only journalist granted access to Holloway’s archives when the prison was closed in 2016.
Caitlin started her career as a human rights reporter and newspaper editor in Botswana, during which she was twice arrested and put on trial. She was a founding member and trustee of Women Against Rape in Maun.
Bad Girls explores how prison has been used to control, silence, and punish women for over 150 years, and was nominated for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing.