Gem Redford is a UK-based photographer working at the intersection of fine art and documentary.

She is drawn to places that feel paused or half-remembered, where the ordinary holds a kind of tension and silence suggests a story just out of reach.

Much of her work is rooted in nostalgia, not only for her own past, but for landscapes inherited through film, television, and cultural memory. Growing up far from the neon signs, desert highways, and suburban streets she often photographs, she came to know them first as imagined places. When encountered in life, they carry the uncanny familiarity of somewhere remembered, rather than discovered.

Whether photographing abandoned motels in the American Southwest, English suburbs at dusk, or fog-soaked streets in unfamiliar cities, her images search for what lingers beneath the surface.

Across long-term projects like A Familiar Place, Quiet Stories from the American Road, and Far From Home, she builds quiet narratives out of light, distance, and absence, capturing places as if suspended between what they were, what they are, and the feelings they leave behind.