“You can sense the
mischief in her images”
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Projects
Just For Fun - Showcase
Duck & Dive
Take a Seat
The One with the Purple Gate
Easy Does It
Nosey Parker
Threes A Charm
Two Sitting Ducks
Out of Order
You’re in America Now, Honey
︎ Info
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Hannah Platt
Leeds, UK
︎ hannahbplatt@gmail.comI’m a visual artist mainly working in photography based here in Leeds, West Yorkshire.
My work is very place-based, I've always been very interested in documenting my immediate environment in a very quick and casual way. I take all of my photos on my iPhone and I love experimenting with print and narrative through self-publishing. I'm very drawn to bright, bold and playful colours, which you'll see from my work, and printed projects. I like to think it provokes a level of comfort, nostalgia and humour in people and I hope to encourage everyone to engage with their environments in new ways.
I have self-published a range of sold-out publications in the last decade, distributing worldwide & stocking nationally. After the success of my self published catalogue I was approached by Bristol based photobook publishers RRB Photobooks to publish my most recent project ‘Nosey Parker’, October 2022. The book was launched at the Books on Photography Festival at the Royal Photography Society and Martin Parr wrote the foreword to the book.
Back in February 2024 I independently curated and funded my first solo show Take a Seat, at East Street Arts. It celebrated the launch of my self-published project Take a Seat, a deck of cards full of found and photographed chairs that I stumbled upon during a trip to Naples, Italy. I was keen to create an intimate and indulgent setting for the work, full of corners for people to sit, share and play with the cards. See more of the show here!
I've exhibited at Leeds Art Gallery as part of their Leeds Artist Show. Been a cohort member of the Open Eye Gallery Crossing Sector Programme, and a collaborator in Miniclicks Women in Photography Group, which together we supported one another through both the joy and challenges of the industry, ending the year with a group show, Gathering.
I have worked directly with a range of community groups across Leeds delivering workshops and photowalks - Leeds Art Gallery, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Arts and Minds, Leeds Art University, Burmantofts Senior Action Group, The Neighbourhood Summer School, Pride of Place with Swarthmore Education Centre and The Youth Collective.
I've also gained a wealth of experience in supporting other artists, producing projects, managing events, mentoring, and access support.
I also lead a collaborative project that absolutely anyone can be apart of, at any given time called Just for Fun, a project to engage and encourage others to notice in their neighbourhoods.
If you have any projects you’d enjoy working with me on, please get in touch. I love collaboration and I’m always looking to get my fingers in more pies!
Press & Article Features
The Square Ball Zine - Nosey Parker & Leeds Artist Show
“A photo of a place you know can tweak a feeling towards, even if the picture is recent, something like nostalgia. Part of the urge for capturing everything through a phone camera is the desire to look back, straight away, at a view we don’t feel like we can get in the place at the time. Some of photographer Hannah Platt’s pictures of Leeds are of places that are minutes away from me, and I’m glad for them because now I can always see things her way. It makes living here a lot more fun”
Amateur Photographer Magazine - Nosey Parker Critique
“I’ve no idea what Platt's nose is like but I know she has an eye, her photographs are like punchlines to Peter Mitchell pictures. They are often bright graphics and full of mischief, a sideways glance, a knowing wink and a nod that raises a wry smile.”
Digital Camera World - Nosey Parker
“This colorful and quirky depiction of a northern English county captures the mundane, the magical and everything in-between”
Leeds Arts University Feature - Nosey Parker
“Hannah’s love for Leeds is clearly apparent in this uplifting and beautiful book. Her inquisitive nature, keen eye for the overlooked in addition to her humour and warmth, seeps through these colourful depictions of our great city.”
Nice People Magazine Feature - Out of Order
“The self-published photobook captures the nation's ability to go through life with a kindly wink and a two-fingers-up attitude. With intelligently curated pages, Platt affectionately presents timeless iconography in modern Britain.“
Gravy Magazine - You’re in America now, Honey
“Passing through the landscape drawn in You’re in America now, Honey, small details catch at the eye, hinting but never revealing some greater narrative. Unexplained objects such as the set of balloons tied to the fence or the ball on the lawn, touch upon the way that stories and track marks left by people are as much an intergrated part of the landscape as trees and buildings.”
Sunday Mornings at the River Feature - You’re in America now, Honey
“Her photographs focus on the conjunction of human imbedded interventions within the urban landscape, italicizing the colors, shapes and patterns formed by urban architecture, telling stories of the city and people who inhabit it.“
Source Magazine Feature - In Bloom
“With blossom trees' ephemeral stay the project captures moments that may be gone tomorrow, a poetic suggestion to appreciate everything in life, don't let things go by un-noticed.“