EMMA PEGRUM
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Emma Pegrum is a journalist, creative editor, photographer and multi-faceted producer who works across a variety of editorial and interdisciplinary artistic projects. She is the co-founder and editor in chief of Mess Books, an Australian book publisher interested in art, photography, design, architecture and literary non-fiction. Primarily writing profiles and features with a focus on the arts, culture and society, Emma’s work has been published by titles such as T Australia: The New York Times Style Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, Broadsheet Media and Fabric Quarterly, among others. She has also worked as a commissioning editor and photo editor, and most recently edited and produced the pilot issue of AGWA Paper, a new arts broadsheet conceptualised for the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA). Emma also wrote, produced and story directed a series of documentary shorts about Western Australian artists for AGWA and oversaw the production of a variety of creative collateral as the gallery undertook a major rebrand. She has also written exhibition essays and biographic and didactic text for a number of private commissions.

Emma specialises in working with a diverse range of collaborators across editorial, design, film, digital media, academia and the visual arts to produce large-scale creative projects, with her own background in journalism, writing and visual storytelling ensuring a cohesive end result.

Her narrative-driven photographic practice explores contemporary Australian identities, place, nostalgia and relationship dynamics. She is a finalist in the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2022 and her work has been exhibited at the Perth Centre for Photography, as well as at Pig Melon in the group show Co-ordinates, curated by Karl Halliday and Henry King.

Contact

Email

mail@emmapegrum.com

Instagram

@emmapegrum

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@emmapegrum

Services

Journalism, writing and editing, photography, creative, film and arts production, creative direction, concept development, publishing.

Press

National Portrait Gallery — Finalists for the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2022.

Emma's projects have been featured in national and international press.

Sydney Morning Herald, February 26, 2022
Haunting artwork evokes the neighbourhood that didn’t need to disappear.
This article was first published in Spectrum, The Age, and also appeared online for The Age, Brisbane Times and WA Today.

Design Boom, March 2, 2022
Ian Strange & Trevor Powers to release short film as eulogy for isolated Australian house
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Selected Clients

T Australia: The New York Times Style Magazine / Harper's Bazaar / Broadsheet Media / Vogue Living / Fabric Quarterly / Pipette Magazine / Gourmet Traveller / Australian Traveller / The Art Gallery of Western Australia / Ian Strange / Tonje Thilesen / Daniel Dorsa / Olive Gill-Hille (Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert) / Emma Regolini (Pig Melon) / Mobilia / Museum of Freedom and Tolerance