Karen Harvey

Creative Director

Karen is the Creative Director of Shutter Hub. She founded the organisation 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 exhibitions.

Karen is also a photographer, writer and consultant who has curated exhibitions internationally and won awards for photography, writing and community development. She previously specialised in projects with museums and galleries, and worked on documentary projects for organisations such as The National Archive and English Heritage. She currently travels a lot on varied photography and writing commissions and is 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 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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Ilisa Stack

Digital Content Assistant

Ilisa is  Digital Content Assistant at Shutter Hub, working on researching and developing opportunities, adding listings to the Shutter Hub website, and supporting partnership work and outreach to other organisations, especially within Scotland.

Ilisa is an award winning documentary and portrait photographer, who has exhibited internationally. Her personal projects typically explore themes of youth culture, community and social issues. She also provides photography and zine workshops teaching skills to homeless, vulnerable and socially excluded people.

In addition to using photography as a medium to communicate Ilisa enjoys curling up with a good book, keeping a small tub of chilli flakes on hand in case of bland food emergencies and, in true Diane Arbus style, visiting places she has never been.