Meet the team
Karen Harvey
Founder, Creative Director
Karen Harvey
Founder, Creative Director
Karen is the Creative Director of Shutter Hub, which she founded to create a supportive community for photographers and to provide a platform for the development of ideas and careers. She’s always busy behind the scenes, working on funding, developing partnerships with other organisations, and planning and producing our exhibitions.
Karen is a photographer, writer and consultant who has curated exhibitions internationally and won awards for photography, writing and community development, whilst specialising in projects with museums and galleries and working on documentary projects for organisations such as The National Archive and English Heritage. She is currently travelling a lot on photography and writing commissions and developing a new charity, the Toiletries Amnesty.
Aside from loving what photography can do, Karen likes driving fast cars, chasing chickens and cats, sharing stories on her blog, drinks with ginger in them and eating too many biscuits.
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Jayne Lloyd
Project Manager
Jayne Lloyd
Project Manager
Jayne is Project Manager at Shutter Hub, working on project funding, exhibition planning and production, writing for the blog and overseeing the Shutter Hub website re-launch.
Jayne is a freelance photographer specialising in working with creatives. She has worked on commissions with the Geffrye Museum, Wallace Collection, Contemporary Applied Arts gallery and The English Garden magazine. She has a background in picture libraries, specialising in museums, and consults on digital image management.
Jayne likes making zines, going to gigs, watching TV boxsets and being by the sea.
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Laura Ward
Project Manager
Laura Ward
Project Manager
Laura is Project Manager at Shutter Hub, working on exhibition planning and production, our Camera Amnesty campaign and writing articles for the blog.
The majority of Laura’s work is shot on film and her pictures and projects have featured in The Independent, Oh Comely, The Guardian, ICA, Tate Britain and New York Times. She has a background in development and operations management at leading national museums.
Laura responds to the pockets of peace that can be found in a busy city and is at her happiest when hiking in a muddy field, chasing a bit of fog.
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Polly Allen
Editorial Contributor
Polly Allen
Editorial Contributor
Polly is a contributor to the Shutter Hub blog, and a journalist and content creator by trade. Her specialist subjects include arts and culture, travel and fashion, so she’s very much at home reviewing photography exhibitions and books for Shutter Hub. Her favourite photographers and artists include Paolo Roversi, Cindy Sherman, Sammy Slabbinck and Francesca Woodman.
Polly also writes an acclaimed travel blog, focusing on dark tourism and cultural travel. You’ll often find her tracking down street art, ghost signs and unusual tourist attractions, with her camera in hand.
She also enjoys reading contemporary fiction, watching crime dramas (especially Poirot), and collaging.
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Silvia Maggi
Digital Content Assistant
Silvia Maggi
Digital Content Assistant
Silvia is our Digital Content Assistant, helping with website content, social media and our award-winning blog.
Silvia is a photographer whose work has been exhibited in Cambridge, London, Tel Aviv and France.
Aside from working with photography, Silvia is a user experience designer, knits and enjoys cooking.