On completion of a photography degree in 1994, Gillian Fletcher bought a compact camera and gradually switched focus from making art work to taking snapshots.
During this change-over period she remained involved in London-based photographic collective the group, exhibiting in several group shows and photographic installations in London. She also instigated and implemented Picturing Myself, a national photographic project enabling beneficiaries of projects run by Barnardo’s children’s charity in the UK to represent themselves and their lives.
Two changes of continent followed—first from England to SE Asia, where she worked in HIV prevention (and briefly returned to photography to manage a photographic project with sex workers in Cambodia), then from SE Asia to Australia, where she is now resident. Settling in Australia has inspired Gillian to return to the camera as a means of examining the world in which she now finds herself. When not wandering the streets at night, searching for illumination, Gillian is a Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University. In 2010 she completed a PhD in which she examined teaching and learning styles within HIV prevention in Burma/Myanmar.