Hannah Guy – Fine Art Photographer

Email: hannah0guy@gmail.com

Hannah Guy (b. 2002) is a Leeds-based fine art photographer who has recently been awarded and undertaken a year with the Accelerator Bursary, delivered by Leeds Art Gallery in partnership with Assembly House and funded by Leeds Art Fund in 2025. She graduated with a First Class Honours BA in Fine Art from The University of Leeds in 2024 and has a studio at Assembly House in Armley. 

Working from night time dreams, Guy transforms fragments of the unconscious into large-scale constructed tableaux. Through a participatory practice grounded in empathy and collaboration, she reimagines these nocturnal visions as meticulously staged, long-exposure photographs that blur the boundary between documentary and fiction. Each image emerges from acts of listening, phone calls with her dad, collaged memories, or anonymous dream sticker responses in Leeds pub bathrooms, where private emotion becomes a shared language. 

Guy has undertaken a variety of socially engaged projects to produce her imagery. Projects include ‘Nightmares and Daymoths’ which investigated and connected three dream narratives of grief, jealousy, and solemnity 4 years on from the covid pandemic with a group of West Yorkshire participants. The continued appearance of the viaduct served as a connective thread, as each dream performance unfolded uniquely in their own light. Guy is currently working from a bank of dream journal submissions submitted across Leeds from January to October 2025 to build a visual photographic map of our collective fears and desires. Her photographs treat dreams as social texts: sites through which feeling circulates and meaning is collectively formed. In their lurid colours and quiet gestures, photography becomes a visual literacy, translating emotional realities that resist homogenisation and shaping what she terms “truthful fictions”.