Jesse Glazzard’s raw, authentic approach to photography is best defined as an intimate blend of portraiture and documentary. His portraits tell stories—spoken or unspoken: stories of life, love, and self. Glazzard captures fleeting moments and understands both the body and the mind as vehicles in perpetual change and motion.

He documents spaces, friends, lovers, himself, and models through both staged portraiture and spontaneous imagery. Jesse studied at the University of Salford and Central Saint Martins.

Jesse Glazzard has been documenting Camp Trans from 2021 to 2024. The project captures the space in Leighton Buzzard and its move to Wales.

Camp Trans UK is a space for rest, care, and play for transgender people of all kinds. It is a radical space at a time when transgender people live with the constant threat of violation and are increasingly targeted politically.

Camp Trans was inspired by a 1991 incident in which Nancy Burkholder was ejected from the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival after refusing to answer when another woman asked whether she was transgender. This project feels like an extension of that history and focuses on stories that are often absent from UK histories.

The work documents slime wrestling, people resting, cooking, and the everyday. It focuses less on the site as a trans-specific space and more as a record of marginalised bodies coming together in solidarity.