Paul Seawright
Paul Seawright was born in 1965 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, at the very beginning of the period that would come to be known as the Troubles. He grew up in a working-class Protestant community on the north side of the city, in streets where the daily texture of life was shaped by sectarian division, military […]
Read MorePeter Dench
Peter Dench was born in 1972 in England and came to photography through a circuitous route that included a degree in politics and stints in various jobs before he found his way behind the camera. He studied photojournalism at the London College of Printing (now the London College of Communication) in the late 1990s, and […]
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 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 […]
Read MoreLeoni Hampton
Leoni Hampton is a contemporary documentary photographer whose work sits at the intersection of personal history and social observation. Born in Australia and now based in the United Kingdom, she brings to her practice a sensibility shaped by the experience of migration, cultural dislocation, and the search for belonging that characterises so many lives in […]
Read MoreMark Neville
Mark Neville was born in London in 1966 and studied at the Royal College of Art and Goldsmiths, University of London, where he developed the socially engaged photographic practice that would distinguish his career. Unlike photographers who observe communities from the outside and exhibit the resulting images in galleries far removed from the lives they […]
Read MoreDan Eldon
Dan Eldon was born in London in 1970 to an English mother, Kathy Eldon, a journalist and media executive, and an American father, Mike Eldon, a management consultant. When Dan was seven, the family relocated to Nairobi, Kenya, a move that would shape every dimension of his creative life. Growing up in East Africa, surrounded […]
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