The Dutch photographer Guia Besana spent time with students at the world’s oldest childcare training institution, still favoured by the international elite. Her series explores the heritage of Norland College, and the individuals who aspire to work internationally as nannies and nursery nurses
Norland nannies have become a global status symbol: from the British royal family to George Clooney, the wealthy elite snap up the export of a single British school in Bath, for their children’s care, development and education. The students are dressed in modestly updated uniforms from the one donned by their 1892 counterparts, but the people who wear the uniforms today are considerably different.
At the prestigious Norland College in Bath, students follow a demanding programme that balances tradition and modernity in order to become the nannies of exception to the elite.
