about - Anna Sampson

Anna Sampson is a London-based photographic artist specialising in shooting and printing on film, with all her artworks created in the darkroom. A graduate of Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts (2015) and UCL (2022), her work has been exhibited internationally and featured in renowned publications such as DAZED, i-D, AnOther, Purple Fashion, Gay Times and The Face. In July 2024, Anna released her debut artbook, Other Intimacies, in collaboration with the Hayward Gallery.

In her practice, Anna employs a queer erotic gaze to explore the erotic potential of the body, as well as the intersections of performance, queerness, and resistance. Her work is deeply rooted in personal life experience and informed by intersectional feminism, particularly the overlapping dynamics of gender, sexuality, race, class, and the politics of the personal. At the heart of her practice is a commitment to challenge and dismantle patriarchal ideas of beauty and desire, by centring the visibility of those marginalised and oppressed by the patriarchy. Her postgraduate study in Gender & Sexuality at UCL further fuels her practice, bridging the gap between academic inquiry and artistic expression with the ultimate goal of working towards social justice for marginalised individuals and communities.

Her full archive is with the UK Leather & Fetish Archive at Bishopsgate Institute.