Booker Skelding is a Welsh photographic artist whose work explores accessibility, touch, and the multisensory potential of images. Based in Caerphilly and working bilingually in Welsh and English, she creates inclusive photographic artworks designed to be experienced not only through sight but also through touch, texture, and physical engagement.
Her practice blends digital photography, vintage film processes, and 3D‑printed relief sculpture. By transforming photographs into tactile surfaces, she opens up new ways for blind and partially sighted audiences, neurodivergent people, and individuals living with dementia to connect with visual culture. Booker’s work is rooted in her own lived experience as a neurodivergent artist, and in her belief that art should be accessible, grounding, and emotionally supportive for everyone.
Booker’s creative process often begins with traditional image‑making using both modern cameras and her growing collection of historical film cameras from the 1890s–1999. She then translates these images into sculptural forms using relief modelling, 3D printing, and experimental surface techniques. This hybrid approach places her practice at the intersection of photography, design, and sensory art.
Community collaboration is central to her work. She regularly partners with disability organisations, care settings, and local groups across Wales to co‑develop tactile artworks and ensure accessibility is built into every stage of her process. Her projects aim to create welcoming, inclusive environments where people who are often excluded from visual art can experience it in meaningful, embodied ways.
Her work has been exhibited across Wales and the UK, and she has been recognised through awards, publications, and her role as a photography judge. Booker is currently expanding her research into multisensory photographic methods and developing bilingual, accessible exhibitions that celebrate Welsh identity while challenging traditional ideas of how photography can be experienced.
Through her practice, she creates not just images, but experiences—spaces where touch, memory, language, and emotion come together.