Artist, writer, walker
📍️Croydon, UK
Get in touch with me at hello [@] ameenarojee.co.uk or on Instagram @ameenarojee
I also run Ameena’s Creative Studio, a branding photography + writing studio for wild-minded indie creators, founders, and small business owners.
📍️Croydon, UK
Get in touch with me at hello [@] ameenarojee.co.uk or on Instagram @ameenarojee
I also run Ameena’s Creative Studio, a branding photography + writing studio for wild-minded indie creators, founders, and small business owners.
Selected highlights
The Following Nan Microexpedition
2023 - ongoing
I joined the Following Nan Project’s inaugural microexpedition into Scotland’s infamous Cairngorm Mountains in 2023, following in Nan Shepherd’s footsteps. I was the expedition photographer and have since written several articles to promote the project.
I am also featured in ‘To Know A Mountain’ (Emily Baker, Michelle Sanders); the short film documents the journey with the aim of encouraging more women to explore the mountains and adventure in Nan’s style. ‘To Know A Mountain’ premiered at Kendal Mountain Festival 2024 and will be released in summer 2025.
Please find an article written for Sidetracked Magazine here (Note: this hasn’t been published yet so please do not share outside of this submission, thank you).
Romantic Croydon
2025
A new anonymous Instagram archival project publishing my collection of photography made in Croydon and nearby with the intention of documenting a different side to the borough.
Creative Microadventures in Croydon
2024
I received funding from Croydon Council to produce and run ‘Creative Microadventures in Croydon’, a series of creative guided walks which used non-technical and playful photography exercises mixed with mindfulness sessions to engage with nature in accessible and interesting ways. Participants also learned about local species and habitats through collaborations with local rangers as well as local creatives like Croydon’s former poet laurate Shaniqua Benjamin who ran a one-off poetry workshop. The walks received the highest percentage of positive feedback within the funded projects.
Rural Croydon
Croydon Council x National Gallery, 2023
I won this commission to produce a photographic body of work for a fixed exhibition. I managed the entire creative process bar exhibition production: pitching the idea, gathering contacts, producing photography, creating and maintaining relationships with stakeholders in the community like local rangers and council members, and liaising with the exhibition team. I managed the budget (up to £6k) and also commissioned a full companion website, copywritten by myself, all on a limited arts budget – and all within 2.5 months.
Crocus Valley
Published by RRB Photobooks
My photobook is a love letter to my hometown of Croydon – was published in 2023 as part of Croydon’s London Borough of Culture programme This is Croydon. The book launched with an accompanying outdoor exhibition in two local sites, launch party, and series of guided photo walks - all funded by National Lottery Heritage Funding. I commissioned Bev Jones, a local painter for the front cover and Shaniqua Benjamin, Croydon’s former poet laureate who created a written narrative to sit alongside the photography.
2023 - ongoing
I joined the Following Nan Project’s inaugural microexpedition into Scotland’s infamous Cairngorm Mountains in 2023, following in Nan Shepherd’s footsteps. I was the expedition photographer and have since written several articles to promote the project.
I am also featured in ‘To Know A Mountain’ (Emily Baker, Michelle Sanders); the short film documents the journey with the aim of encouraging more women to explore the mountains and adventure in Nan’s style. ‘To Know A Mountain’ premiered at Kendal Mountain Festival 2024 and will be released in summer 2025.
Please find an article written for Sidetracked Magazine here (Note: this hasn’t been published yet so please do not share outside of this submission, thank you).
Romantic Croydon
2025
A new anonymous Instagram archival project publishing my collection of photography made in Croydon and nearby with the intention of documenting a different side to the borough.
Creative Microadventures in Croydon
2024
I received funding from Croydon Council to produce and run ‘Creative Microadventures in Croydon’, a series of creative guided walks which used non-technical and playful photography exercises mixed with mindfulness sessions to engage with nature in accessible and interesting ways. Participants also learned about local species and habitats through collaborations with local rangers as well as local creatives like Croydon’s former poet laurate Shaniqua Benjamin who ran a one-off poetry workshop. The walks received the highest percentage of positive feedback within the funded projects.
Rural Croydon
Croydon Council x National Gallery, 2023
I won this commission to produce a photographic body of work for a fixed exhibition. I managed the entire creative process bar exhibition production: pitching the idea, gathering contacts, producing photography, creating and maintaining relationships with stakeholders in the community like local rangers and council members, and liaising with the exhibition team. I managed the budget (up to £6k) and also commissioned a full companion website, copywritten by myself, all on a limited arts budget – and all within 2.5 months.
Crocus Valley
Published by RRB Photobooks
My photobook is a love letter to my hometown of Croydon – was published in 2023 as part of Croydon’s London Borough of Culture programme This is Croydon. The book launched with an accompanying outdoor exhibition in two local sites, launch party, and series of guided photo walks - all funded by National Lottery Heritage Funding. I commissioned Bev Jones, a local painter for the front cover and Shaniqua Benjamin, Croydon’s former poet laureate who created a written narrative to sit alongside the photography.
Exhibitions & Residencies
Portrait of Britain, Nationwide
Movement in the Landscape, New Addington Library
for Surrey Hills Arts
Norwood Narratives, Stanley Arts for Croydon Council
Crocus Valley & Rural Croydon, City Hall
Crocus Valley Kenley Common, Croydon
Crocus Valley Park Hill Park, Croydon
Rural Croydon Thornton Heath Library for
This Is Croydon, London Borough of Culture
Eight Limbs Royal Photographic Society
I am Number 17 OXO Gallery
ISSP Riga Residency, Latvia
PhotoCat, Schilt Gallery
Teaching, Talks, and Workshops
Upcoming
North Downs Way ambassadorship
Ongoing
Associate Lecturer, Cambridge School of Art
Teaching two short courses on ‘Photography and Writing’
Past
University of Hertfordshire
Portait of Britain x PhotoLondon
Falmouth University
Crux Research Network, The Photographer’s Gallery
Creative microadventures in Croydon
Crocus Valley Guided Walks
University of Plymouth
Through Our Lens
University of Hertfordshire
London College of Communications
The Photobook Club
Work Show Grow
University of the West of England
LAPC x Brighton Photo Fringe
The Photography Show
Thomas Tallis School
WeWork
London National Park City Fair
Thornton Heath Arts Week
Books
Crocus Valley RRB Photobooks, 2023
A love letter to Croydon Another Place Press, 2020
Hard Work Brown Owl Press, 2015
Other Publications
Seedlings IV: Winter – Seedlings, 2025Portrait of Britain Vol. 7 – British Journal of Photography, 2025
AND 2023 – Then There Was Us, 2024
Issue 01 – Our Collective Breath, 2022
A World Half Seen – Inside the Outside, 2019
Selected Clients
National Gallery, DK Books, Surrey Hills Arts, Cambridge School of Art, Inkcap Journal, The London Library, Hyphen, London Borough of Culture, Croydon Council, The Telegraph Saturday Magazine
Selected Press
The Guardian – Portrait of Britain winners in pictures
British Journal of Photography – Portrait of Britain: 100 stories light up the nation
CCD – #SpillingTheTea
British Journal of Photography – ‘Crocus Valley’, Virtual Reality Issue
Backstory Issue 1 – I left my heart in Croydon
Croydonist – The Wilder Side Of Croydon
Huck Magazine – Photos capturing the romantic side of Croydon
Where the Leaves Fall – Confluences: On Ameena Rojee
British Journal of Photography – ‘Valley of Paradise’, Love Issue
British Journal of Photography – Ameena Rojee finds new meaning in walking along the Camino de Santiago
Croydonist – To Croydon, With Love
Why Now – ‘This precise and brutal martial art’ Eight Limbs by Ameena Rojee
British Journal of Photography – Photographing Kung Fu in the Qufu School of Shaolin Kung Fu, China
Education
University of the West of England, 2011 - 2014
BA(Hons) Photography