Fran May, Photographer

Fran was born in Vancouver, Canada in 1954 to English parents. She studied photography, gaining a masters degree at the Royal College of Art, London in 1978. Since 1978 Fran has worked internationally as a photographer, designer, web designer and teacher in digital imaging techniques, advanced digital photography and creative thinking.

client list

• The Sunday Times
• TTP Group
• Unigate
• Megahertz Communications Ltd
• Freshfields Bruckhaus Derringer
• Coty
• Cambridge University
• Emmanuel College
• The Moller Centre
• St John’s College
• Trinity College
• Nat West Markets
• Unigate
• The Crown Prosecution Service
• KCA International, BTR
• Logica
• CPL Aromas
• Nikon
• Leitz
• The Horseracing Forensic Laboratory
• British Steel and many more

Fran's thirty-year career has included the following:

• Documenting inner city homeless in London and documenting 'Brick Lane' in the 1970’s

• Documenting the Tombs of the Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt for the Brooklyn Museum, New York and being part of the BBC television documentary ‘Romer’s Egypt’.
  

• Providing an exhibition of photographs for the opening of the Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Bristol. These images were of tribal dancers, fishing activities, village life and the slave castles of Ghana, West Africa.
  

• Producing a series of Cambridge images, which have been used consistently as a picture library resource, as posters and as fine art prints.
  

• Producing a series of images illustrating the twelve world famous scientific discoveries, which are also connected with Cambridge. The images were produced as calendars and also as exhibition panels for the Christie’s exhibition, ‘ Cambridge, Foundation of the Future’. London.
  

• Producing a technically ground breaking brochure image for TTP Group featuring over 900 layers, which was recognized as pioneering in the early days of digital imaging.