Joanna Vestey is a photographic artist working with photography and sound.  Her practice explores tracing and visualising time and stewardship. Since 2015, she has been developing ways to make work ‘beyond’ using traditional methods of photographing experimenting with long durational exposures and visualising sound and data-scapes.

She studied photography at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design|UAL and at Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem.  She has an MA in Social Anthropology and Development from SOAS and a PhD completed 
at the European Centre for Documentary Research; Conditions of Knowledge: Photographic Materiality and the Process of Order. Her work is held by The National Portrait Gallery, and has been exhibited and published widely. Books include London in Lockdown by Hoxton Mini Press (2022) and the monograph, Custodians, which was published by Ashmolean Press (2015). Her work has appeared in; CNN, 
The Financial Times, Le Monde, The Telegraph, BJP, Aesthetica Magazine, Uncertain States.  Recent exhibitions include, The Fitzrovia Chapel, (2024) Messum’s Gallery (2023), Format Festival, (2023) The Royal Photographic Society (2023), The South Bank Centre (2019), OffShoot Gallery, London (2020), The North Wall (2018), Athens Photo Festival (2017), Glastonbury Festival (2018) , The Bodleian Library (2017), Palazzo Mora, Venice Biennale (2016) and Arles Photography Open Salon (2014).

Joanna’s practice has been featured and reviewed on Sky, CNN, BBC, BBC radio Arts live with Will Gompertz, Exposed Live at the Ashmolean Museum and The BBC Breakfast Show with Gaby Roslin. Her most recent work ‘Solace’ has been nominated for Prix Pictet 2025. She is the recipient of several awards and bursaries including from Arts Council England (2024), 
She was winner of TPA/RPS Environmental Bursary (2022), shortlisted RA Summer Exhibition, finalist Renaissance Award, 2015, finalist Athens Photography Festival, Jurys Choice finalist Prix Virginia, 2014  and IPA Awards Finalist 2014

Joanna is passionate about how photography can both affect and effect change, her print sale of Custodians for Covid photographs raised £140k for theatres during lockdown. Beyond her own practice she is co-curator of online platform Beyond The Negative, an Associate Lecturer at the University of Plymouth, a trustee of PhotoOxford and At The Bus and is an advisory board member of the Ian Parry Award. She is represented by Barron Art Agency and is based in London.