Sports Day

Costume, Set, Art Direction and Photography by Loubie-Lou - Sarah Brittain Edwards and Louise Adolphsen

Masquerade

Costume, Set, Art Direction and Photography by Loubie-Lou - Sarah Brittain Edwards and Louise Adolphsen

University of the Arts London Collection, London, UK. Acquired 2006

Best Fine Art Photographer -The British Photography Awards Shortlist 2020

Little Girls

Costume, Set, Art Direction and Photography by Loubie-Lou - Sarah Brittain Edwards and Louise Adolphsen

Naked

Costume, Set, Art Direction and Photography by Loubie-Lou - Sarah Brittain Edwards and Louise Adolphsen

Boxing

Costume, Set, Art Direction + Photography by Loubie-Lou - Sarah Brittain Edwards and Louise Adolphsen

The Lonelies

Costume, Set, Art Direction, Photography, Film Processing and Printing

The Lonelies is a series of photographic images that were created during an 8-week residency at KARST Plymouth, in partnership with CAMP and Arts University Plymouth, as a rebellious response against the impending doom of AI photography and HD digital perfection, to remind herself of what can be created using an analogue approach. Escaping from a long period of inhabiting the digital world, Brittain Edwards returns to a slower and more tactile approach to her photographic art. Armed with herself and her trusty 35mm camera of 29 years, a few roles of black and white film, and lured by the red light of the darkroom, she creates a mystical world of theatrical costumes and set creations, that her macabre and lonely figures inhabit.

Daughter

Photography + Art Direction

‘Waiting’

Best Portrait Photographer Nominee -The British Photography Awards 2019

After being stunned by the birth of my daughter, just over 11 years ago, I lost all of my desire to be creative, and felt like I had lost a part of my identity that I had always known.

This void was now filled with the overwhelming and dominating sense of undying love for this tiny new being. The fake and the contrived world that I had lived in before now meant nothing to me. and I no longer wanted to be part of it.

In 2017, as my daughter entered her 10th year, I discovered a yearning and a strong desire to create - but this time not to fit into a box, not to contrive, to impress or to conform to anyone, but just simply to create just for me.

This is how project 'Daughter' was born.

Up until now, we have had a rocky relationship - becoming used to each others moods and emotions and excepting who we are as individuals. 'Daughter' explores how I see my daughter. and how reachable and yet unreachable she can be at the same time - when I catch her intense gaze - how I know I will never truly know her inner thoughts - they belong to her and not to me - how the moments of mundane day to day life have become captured snatches of time that have a thousand things to say, but without any words.