Soo Burnell is a Scottish photographer born in 1981. She discovered photography at the age of 13, skipping classes to spend hours in her school darkroom, fascinated by the magic of images appearing on paper. After her grandfather passed away, she used the 500 pounds he left her to buy her own equipment and start developing her photographs at home.

Soo went on to study photography in Edinburgh and has been working as a photographer for over twenty years, collaborating with magazines across the United Kingdom in fashion, portraiture, interiors and architecture. While her technical skills were firmly established, it was the work of Julius Shulman and Slim Aarons that helped shape her distinctive visual language, with its emphasis on geometry, light and carefully constructed compositions.

Today, Soo is known for her calm, cinematic images where architecture and human presence quietly share the frame. Her photographs often depict swimming pools and iconic public buildings as spaces of stillness, memory and contemplation, transforming familiar places into poetic, almost dreamlike scenes.

In a world saturated with tension, Soo Burnell creates a space for pause and reflection. The figures in her images, silent and introspective, seem to inhabit stories that are never fully told, inviting each viewer to imagine their own narrative.