Theo Zeal is a photographer born in 1993 who lives and works in south east London. Largely self-taught, he moves between documentary and constructed images, with a strong interest in analogue processes and the material side of photography.
His first book, Ways In Which You Could Be Failing, was self-published in 2021 in an edition of 100. For Adam (L’Artiere, 2026) he followed his oldest friend as he foraged on the Isle of Mull and walked the empty land along the Thames estuary. He developed many of the negatives in caffenol and kept the damaged results.
In 2025 he won a Chico review grant and an honorable mention in the Benrido Hariban Award. In 2026 his work was part of the group show Sedimentations at the Biennale Photo Mulhouse and of Off The Shelf at Filter Space in Chicago.
