Recognition:

Travel Photographer of the Year 2009 - Portfolio finalist

EAAA - Image selected for 2011 calendar

Exhibitions:

Cambridge Open Studios 'Images of Africa' July 2010
London College of Communication 'Abridged' November 2008

Celia Bartlett has over thirty years of experience in working with photography, and currently works under the name of Ailec Photography and shortly, also Ailec Design. She has a BA Hons Graphic Design from Cambridge School of Art at Anglia Ruskin plus a Post Graduate Certificate in Book Arts from London College of Communication.

Celia says, ‘I first began an interest in photography around the age of fourteen when I was able to borrow assorted basic or old cameras. After receiving a brand new Pentax SLR for my twenty-first birthday, I swiftly went on to develop a passion for the art. I was fortunate enough to achieve recognition for my images early on at a local level, confirming that my eye for a picture was a skill worth pursuing. From there I went on to capture landscape and documentary images throughout the following years of world travel and also during every-day life.’

The transition to digital photography began in 2000, with the full switch to a Canon DSLR coming in 2007. Since then Celia ventured into informal portraiture and wildlife photography. She was fortunate to be part of a Canon delegation to Kenya in 2009, and coupled with a trip to Tanzania earlier in 2009, it provided her with the resources for her 2010 exhibition.