Meet the Maker: Emma Croman - Storytelling portrait and brand photography
WHEN
6:00pm - 7:30pm
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Celebrate the people behind the making.
Join us for a series of relaxed Meet the Maker sessions, bringing together fascinating artists working across sculpture, furniture making, textiles, and print. Organised by Haarlem Studios and Gallery, these informal talks offer a chance to hear directly from artists about their work, ideas, and creative journeys.
Across six sessions, artists supported by Haarlem Mill will share what inspires them, how they work, and what it means to be a maker today. Expect friendly conversations, thoughtful insights, and plenty of opportunity to ask questions.
Free to attend, with tea and coffee provided
The talks take place in the atmospheric Gothic Warehouse at Cromford Mill.
Emma Croman - Storytelling portrait and brand photography
Emma Croman is a nationwide photographer based in the beautiful Derbyshire Dales in the East Midlands, offering a modern take on portrait and lifestyle photography.
A lover of nature and conscious, considered living, Emma is particularly keen to collaborate with people and organisations working to make the planet a better place. Her connection to photography began at around eight years old when her aunt first gave her a camera. It quickly became her way of seeing the world - a source of escapism and a means of understanding it.
Much of her childhood was also spent outdoors in her grandad’s rambling garden, helping to grow vegetables, tending to his owl box and joining him on walks to the wildlife hides he had built around the town. This early love of the natural world — and a strong sense of responsibility to care for it — has remained woven throughout her life and work.
Now with over 15 years’ experience as a freelance photographer, Emma has created imagery for books and magazines, primarily working with natural light. A former picture editor, she combines her editorial insight with her distinctive style to produce imagery that feels peaceful and calm, with an emphasis on observing the everyday and capturing moments that might otherwise pass unnoticed.
