James Bettney
Multidisciplinary designer and image-maker
Graduated from GSA 2011
Life after GSA
1/2 Graphic Designer
Worked as a freelance designer for agencies, briefly for Arcadia (Topshop) and then for the designer Alison Lloyd for her brand Ally Capellino.

2/2 Photographic Work
Met the photographer David Harriman who I began working and collaborating with from 2011.
David is an award winning photographer and director, from advertising campaigns to long term film and photography projects. His photographic work has appeared in institutions ranging from the National Portrait Gallery in London to the National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC.
Commercial
HM Government
Modern Slavery Helpline
Documentary
Collider
100m below the surface, fundamental particles race around at a whisker under the speed of light. Colliding together to discover a deeper understanding of what the universe is made from.
An on-going project at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Each photograph is taken at exact positions above the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator.
Truth & Kitty
An epic ten-year love story set in a city designed to be a holiday from reality. Truth and Kitty navigate survival, faith and addiction in Downtown Las Vegas. Two extraordinary human beings experiencing the extremes of devotion, the extremes of love and the extremes of pain.
Truth and Kitty show us the wisdom they found, and the dreams they lost. With the Vegas strip seemingly a million miles away, it serves to give a voice to those whose emotions rarely find a platform and as an intimate portrait of the disadvantaged in a city that is a byword for excess.
The Arbitrary Killing Of James Edgar Lewis
An unexplained murder of a lost man.
Two murders and two attempted murders in forty-eight hours. James Edgar Lewis brutally executed in the night as he sleeps on a street corner. Unaware of his whereabouts for 18 years, James’s family await the the trial of the man charged with all four crimes.