Sophie Myles
Signal, UV print on 1967 admiralty map, in steel frame 113 x 81 cm
Fraternité UV print on 1977 admiralty map, in steel frame 113 x 81 cm
Signal to the Marade looks at state violence, and attempts to subvert the state's tools of knowledge, by using maps and passports. Combining this with the visual language of reportage. All prints show sets of 5 + 2 AP unless otherwise stated.
Signal to the marade, UV print in old blue british expired passport 18.5 x 14.5cm Set of 20 + 5 AP is available as a photo book , with 13 images printed inside it each passport is unique and has its own travel history, that the images are printed over for 100£ each.
Im living here Im living here 2022 -2024, focused on the student housing crisis in the UK, exploring the effects of inadequate housing through mixed media participatory methods. Using photography as a tool in order to facilitate wider conversations about renting in the UK.
Canal zone angel,2023- 2025 is a love letter to the city road basin along Regents canal. To show it as I perceived it a respite from London, a place to play match Attax with friends for the sheer novelty of it, It shows community. Available as a A4 Zine
I love you Jesus Christ 2023,This project was shot in Lisbon and focused on 1st and 2nd generation youth questioning the idea of an ethnically stable European state in postcolonial times, further looking at how these groups of people are the margins attempt to build identity for themselves.
Event work portfolio
Sophie Myles’s (b.2004) practice focuses on, use of state power, inequality and methods of control; They attempt to highlight this via the visual language of reportage and seek to distort and question its means of visual representation. This focus comes from their background in politics and training in qualitative research methods.
They are currently working on the project, signal to the marade, focusing on asylum seekers attempting to cross the English Channel, and link bordering infrastructure.
Further they have previously worked on, the projects ‘I love you jesus christ’ focused on 1st and 2nd generation immigrant youth in portugal, as well as ‘im living here’ a project about student housing.
Their practice is based in documentary photography, activism, and social change.
She/They
Instagram sophie.m.sk
Email sophie.myles.work gmail.com
Cofounder of ticket inspector collective
Education
University of York, Social and Political Sciences
Royal College of Art MA photography
They are currently working on their project, signal to the marade, focusing on asylum seekers attempting to cross the English Channel, and link bordering infrastructure.
Further they have previously worked on, the projects ‘I love you jesus christ’ focused on 1st and 2nd generation immigrant youth in portugal featured in dazed, as well as ‘im living here’ a project about student housing.
Their practice is based in documentary photography, activism, and social change. ff
She/They
Instagram sophie.m.sk
email -----.myles.work@gmail.com
Cofounder of ticket inspector collective