Selected Biography

Elaine Constantine is an internationally acclaimed Fashion Photographer, in her 15 year career she has regularly contributed to Vogue Italia, American Vogue, French Vogue, W magazine, Citizen K, Sleazenation and Arena Homme Plus. Commercial clients have included: Lacoste, H&M, Nike, GAP, Adidas, Siemens, Evian, Katharine Hamnett, Anna Molinari, LEVI’S, Wrangler, Clarins, and Jigsaw. Elaine has also shot album cover artwork for Robbie Wiliams and Moloko.

Constantine’s photographic work has featured in a number of exhibitions and book projects including the 1999 Shoreditch Bienale, the British Council’s exhibition of British fashion photography entitled Look at Me and the recent “Archaeology of Elegance” exhibition and accompanying book published by Steidl. Her work won a prize at the 1998 John Kobal Foundation portrait awards. Elaine has also been a guest speaker at the Photographer’s Gallery, the London School of Printing and the Royal College of Fashion.

Constantine’s first solo exhibition was held in 1998 at Marion de Beaupré’s Galerie 213 in Paris, followed by a solo exhibition at the Speakfor Gallery in Tokyo, Japan in the same year. Since then her work has appeared in the V&A exhibition “Imperfect Beauty” and the Barbican’s “Jam Tokyo-London” exhibition.. Her most recent solo exhibition “Tea Dance” has toured Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, Moscow and London as well as various public galleries in the UK including Mac Gallery in Birmingham and Castlefield Gallery in Manchester, winning City Life's Exhibition of the Year for the latter.

Over the last two years Constantine moved away from shooting fashion and has started to direct commercials, pop videos and short documentary projects. She was named as Creative Review’s young director to watch in their 2002 Creative Futures Award on the strength of her first pop video for Richard Hawley. She has since directed a video for Moloko's single "Familiar Feeling", which led to a nomination as Best New Director for Music Video in the 2003 British Creative and Design Awards. She has also directed commercials for clients including Parco, AXA, Nissan plus a short film titled "Home Dance".

As well as these commercial film projects Constantine has recently written and directed her first short film based on her memories of growing up in a large Catholic family in Bury, North Manchester. The 25 minute film "Cold Water" was completed in 2005. Watch the Quicktime trailer here.