Tia Bannon is an interdisciplinary artist, (actor, photographer, writer and artist) from Ladbroke Grove, London. She trained at RADA.
Her heritage is Bajan, Jamaican, Welsh, and Eastern European Jewish.
As a child of both the Afro-Caribbean and Eastern-European Jewish diasporas, she explore the reconnection with culture and heritage after displacement. Her work focuses on shifting the lens, resisting colonialism and reclaiming narratives through consensual image-making, expanding archive, and developing the skills to execute processes her communities have long had limited access to.

Tia is a self-taught photographer, her practice centres analog traditions working with half frame, medium and large format cameras. She enjoys the analog process for its tactile approach and ability to explore and experiment, and frequently develops and prints her work in the darkroom
Earlier this year she undertook a bespoke residency in Springfield MO, to learn the Wet Plate Collodion process, funded by Arts Council England. She is currently the only Black British person in England practicing this process and is developing a project utilising the technique, exploring a process of reclamation given its links to colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade for which she has just been awarded another highly competitive grant.

She is currently shortlisted for the Daniel Tamagni Award.