STILL FRAMES: A talk by Fiona Lloyd-Davies about working with a twin lens Rolleiflex in areas of conflict

STILL FRAMES: A talk by Fiona Lloyd-Davies about working with a twin lens Rolleiflex in areas of conflict

A life-long admirer of Lee Miller’s work, Fiona was inspired to find a second-hand Twin Lens Rollei to take to the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2001 at the height of the Second Congo war. Deep in the forest in the isolated town of Shabunda, Fiona took a series of images – portraits and landscapes – for a words and pictures feature on the epidemic of sexual violence against women and children published in the Glasgow Herald Magazine. Since then, Fiona has taken her Rollei to many locations from Congo, Rwanda to Iraq. She will talk about the positive impact working with a Rollei has had on her work, showing some of the images she has taken with it.

Award winning documentary filmmaker and photojournalist Fiona Lloyd-Davies has been working in areas of conflict for over 30 years. Today, documentary films dominate her work, but she has taken photographs all her life, starting in her early teens. She focused on photography at art school, especially during an exchange at the École Supérieure d’Art in Aix en Provence where she experienced the magic of Provencal light first hand. In 1990’s she started working in broadcast television and was also taking images in Bosnia during the war.

Photo Credit: Brigitte with baby Damas, Shabduna, October 2001 © Fiona Lloyd-Davies