Bex Day
Bex Day is a photographer and director from London. After working as a photo assistant for Ryan McGinley during her time in New York, Day returned to London to become photo editor of PYLOT Magazine, an all-analogue fashion and arts publication with an ethos for zero beauty retouching. This laid the foundation for her own practice, challenging rigid beauty ideals within her work and focusing predominantly on the themes of gender, identity, diversity and freedom of choice.
Day has lectured about her work at Nicer Tuesdays (It’s Nice That), The University of Cambridge, The Hepworth Gallery, and the Vogue Italia exhibitions The Female Gaze in 2016 and All That Man Is – Fashion and Masculinity Now in 2018. She was also nominated for the following awards: the Magnum Graduate Award 2016, the C/O Berlin Talent Award 2020, This is Gender 2020, the Wolf Suschitzky Prize 2021, the Royal Photographic Society IPE 163 Shortlist 2021 and the British Journal of Photography Portrait of Humanity Shortlist 2021.
In April 2019, Day completed her first solo exhibition and film, titled Hen, at Herrick Gallery, London, which centred around the UK’s older transgender and non-binary communities. It was featured on BBC Breakfast, Channel 4 News and Buzzfeed, and in Vogue Italia, Twin, Vice, i-D, It’s Nice That, Refinery29, 10 Magazine, Dazed and Confused, and AnOther Magazine.
In July 2022, Day displayed her series and film Children of Covid at Offshoot Gallery, London. The series explored the impact of the pandemic on children aged 4 to 13. Channel 4 created a micro-documentary based on the series, and it was also featured by Wallpaper, AnOther Magazine, The Sunday Times Magazine, Vogue Italia, the Royal Photographic Society and The British Journal of Photography.
Her editorial and commercial clients include Adidas, Adobe, AnOther Magazine, Apple, Bodyform, Burberry, Dazed and Confused, The Face, Fendi, Harper’s Bazaar, i-D, Levi’s, Louis Vuitton, The New York Times, Stella McCartney, Swarovski and Vogue Italia and Vogue Mexico.
