Donovan Wylie
Donovan Wylie was born in Belfast in 1971, at the very start of the period that would come to be known as the Troubles. Growing up in a city defined by division, surveillance, and the constant presence of military infrastructure, Wylie developed an acute sensitivity to the ways in which political power inscribes itself upon […]
Read MoreEadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge was born Edward James Muggeridge in 1830 in Kingston upon Thames, England, a market town on the outskirts of London. He emigrated to the United States as a young man, arriving in San Francisco around 1855, where he worked initially as a bookseller and publisher’s agent. The circumstances of his transformation from a […]
Read MoreFifty Key Writers on Photography – Mark Durden
From Amazon: A clear and concise survey of some of the most significant writers on photography who have played a major part in defining and influencing our understanding of the medium. It provides a succinct overview of writing on photography from a diverse range of disciplines and perspectives and examines the shifting perception of the medium […]
Read MoreGillian Wearing
Gillian Wearing was born in 1963 in Birmingham, England, and grew up in the city’s suburbs during a period of post-industrial decline and social upheaval. She studied at the Chelsea School of Art and then at Goldsmiths, University of London, graduating in 1990 as part of a generation of British artists — including Damien Hirst, […]
Read MoreHannah Starkey
Hannah Starkey was born in 1971 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, during one of the most turbulent periods of the Troubles. She grew up in a city defined by conflict and division, an environment that instilled in her a heightened awareness of the ways in which public space is shaped by politics, gender, and power. She […]
Read MoreJohn Scott
John Scott is a British documentary photographer whose work belongs to the tradition of sustained, community-based photographic practice that has been one of the most distinctive contributions of British photography to the wider medium. Working primarily in the towns, estates, and post-industrial landscapes of England, Scott has built a body of work characterised by a […]
Read MoreJulian Germain
Julian Germain was born in 1962 in England and studied photography at the Royal College of Art in London. From the outset of his career, he distinguished himself from the prevailing currents of British art photography by his commitment to collaborative, long-term projects that prioritised human relationships over aesthetic display. While many of his contemporaries […]
Read MoreKen Grant
Ken Grant was born in 1967 in Liverpool, the son of a carpenter. He bought his first camera — a Polaroid — at the age of twelve and worked as a carpenter himself before studying photography under Martin Parr and Paul Graham at West Surrey College of Art and Design. Over the past three decades, […]
Read MoreLarry Burrows
Larry Burrows was born Henry Frank Leslie Burrows in 1926 in London, the son of a railway worker who raised his family in the modest terraced streets of the city’s north. His childhood coincided with the upheavals of the Depression and the gathering clouds of war, and he left school at sixteen to take a […]
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