Madeleine Penfold joins Curate Films

Joining Curate Films is Madeleine Penfold a fabulous photographer and documentary director who specialises in sport.

Stories have the power to shift perceptions and change the world, and Penfold has a passion for human movement, creativity in sports and stories of growth. She is driven by an opportunity to create visual work that contributes to creating an equally representative and inclusive visual landscape, across mainstream media, capturing stories that inspire and encourage positive change.

Born and raised in North Manchester, Penfold grew up taking pictures with any camera she could get my hands on, mums disposables, dads compact old digital. She was inspired by the world around her, a nearby football pitch and rows up on rows of terrace houses was my youth. As she got older she became curious of the wider world, especially stories of her grandma’s upbringing in Kenya, which led Madeleine to explore the world of image making in a number of communities and cultures.