Claudette May Holmes (born 1962) is a British photographer. Her work, which uses elements of montage and hand-colouring, has challenged stereotypical representations of Black British people. [1]
Claudette Holmes was born in 1962 in Birmingham, England. In the early 1980s she worked in community arts in Birmingham. [1] In 1982 she exhibited in Closing the Gap at the University of Aston and Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry. [2]
In 1990 Holmes was among several female black and Asian photographers featured in the documentary Sistren in Photography. [3] The 1993 exhibition From Negative Stereotype to Positive Image included her work alongside that of three other Birmingham photographers: Sir Benjamin Stone (1838–1914), Ernest Dyche (1887–1973) and Vanley Burke (born 1951). [4] In 1996 she won the Chrissie Bailey Photography and Education Award. [1]