Abbie Trayler-Smith Explained

Abbie Trayler-Smith
Birth Place:	Wales, United Kingdom
Nationality:	Welsh
Education:	Self-taught
Known For:	Photography^[1]
Notable Works:	Chelsea 2010

Abbie Trayler-Smith is a Welsh documentary and portrait photographer who contributed to The Daily Telegraph for eight years from 1998, covering the war in Iraq and the Asian tsunami. In 2010, with her portrait Chelsea, she won fourth prize in the Taylor Wessing competition, and second prize in 2017 for Fleeing Mosul.

Life and career

Abbie Trayler-Smith was born in Wales. She is self-taught, specializing in documentary and portrait photography. She worked for The Daily Telegraph for eight years. She has been working as a freelance artist since 2007.^[1]

Awards

• 2010: Fourth prize, Taylor Wessing competition, for Chelsea^{[2] [3]}
• 2017: Second prize, Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, for Fleeing Mosul^{[4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}

Personal life

Trayler-Smith lives in London, England.^[1]

Publications

• Rise: Images of Life Change. Edited by John Levy. Dubai: Legatum Foundation; Foto8, 2010. . With text by Max Houghton and photographs by Carmen Elsa Lopez, William Daniels, Robin Hammond, Trayler-Smith, Venetia Dearden, Sanjit Das, Atul Loke, and Kate Shortt.
• Common Ground. Document Scotland, 2014. Includes work by each Document Scotland member as well as by members of Welsh photography collective A Fine Beginning, including Trayler-Smith. With essays by Malcolm Dickson and Anne McNeill. Published to accompany an exhibition at Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow.^[9]

Notes and References

1. Web site: LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress) . Library of Congress . 30 March 2020.
2. Web site: Abbie Trayler-Smith. World Press Photo.
3. Web site: Abbie Trayler-Smith: Life as a documentary photographer. Abel-Hirsch, Abel. British Journal of Photography. 5 October 2017 .
4. News: 2018-08-12. Portrait of teen migrant wins 2017's Taylor Wessing prize. Metro. 15 November 2017.
5. News: 2018-08-12. From migrants to androids. BBC News. 6 September 2017.
6. Web site: 2018-08-12. Abbie Trayler-Smith: Life as a documentary photographer – British Journal of Photography. www.bjp-online.com.
7. Web site: Sean. O'Hagan. 2018-08-12. Taylor Wessing photographic portrait prize review – the unflinching gaze of a worthy winner. 14 November 2017. The Guardian.
8. Web site: Mark. Brown. 2018-08-12. Photo of girl fleeing Isis shortlisted for Taylor Wessing portrait prize. 5 September 2017. The Guardian.
9. Web site: 2020-09-03. Common Ground – our new publication. Document Scotland. 22 August 2014 .