Camille graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Biological Sciences from La Trobe University in 1997, followed by postgraduate studies in Criminology at the University of Melbourne in 1999. In 2015 she completed a Master’s Degree in Digital Photography and Creative Media Arts, graduating with distinction from London South Bank University.

DOCTORATE WORK (2018–2023)

Camille holds a PhD from one of the United Kingdom’s leading institutes for visual research, the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) at the Westminster School of Art. Her doctoral research, Whoretography: The Woman Sex Worker as Image-Maker, offers a critical analysis of the representation of sex workers in online spaces. Camille’s groundbreaking work has resulted in several academic publications and has received significant recognition within both academia and the arts. She also holds an Associate Fellowship in Higher Education.

They Called It Consent

Unlike other advocates, I argue that teachers/school staff don’t have the luxury to argue they too were groomed by an abuser as an excuse for action and/or inaction.

They Called It Consent is a feminist reckoning with institutional abuse and the language used to excuse it.

Told through memory, analysis, and lived experience, the book exposes how a sexual relationship between a teenage girl and adult men was reframed as “choice,” allowing harm to be normalised and accountability to disappear.

This book refuses the familiar narrative that isolates blame in a single perpetrator—or worse, places it on the girl herself. Instead, it lays responsibility equally across three parties: the men who exploited their power, the bystander adults who saw and stayed silent, and the school that enabled abuse through neglect, denial, and reputation-management.

They Called It Consent asks uncomfortable questions about power, complicity, and how institutions teach girls to mistake coercion for agency—and then live with the consequences alone.