About the event
Westminster Photography Forum presents British documentary photographer, Anna Fox in a live-streamed presentation and conversation hosted by David Bate and followed by Q&A on Tuesday 5 April 2022 at 5pm BST. All are welcome to join.
About the speaker
Born in 1961 and completing her degree in Audio Visual studies at The Surrey Institute, Farnham in 1986, Anna Fox has been working in photography and video for over thirty years. Influenced by the British documentary tradition and US ‘New Colourists’ her first work Workstations (published by and exhibited first at Camerawork, London 1988) observed, with a critical eye, London office culture in the mid Thatcher years. Later work documenting weekend wargames, Friendly Fire, was exhibited in the exhibition Warworks at the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Netherlands Foto Institute and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography.
Her solo shows have been seen at The Photographer’s Gallery, London, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Shanghai Center of Photography and her work has been included in numerous international group shows including Through the Looking Glass (Barbican Art Gallery), Centre of the Creative Universe: Liverpool and the Avant-garde (Tate Liverpool) How We Are: Photographing Britain (Tate Britain) and Home Sweet Home at rencontres de la Photographie, Arles. Fox has published numerous monographs and is about to launch her latest book BLINK, commissioned by Central St Martin’s.
Anna Fox is Professor of Photography at University for the Creative Arts at Farnham and leads the Fast Forward Women in Photography research project.
Accessing the Lecture
The talk is publicly accessible as a livestream which you can access via on Blackboard Collaborate.
About the Westminster Photography Forum Series
The Westminster Photography Forum offers a series of talks by visiting artist/photographers, theorists, historians, curators and other industry professionals. Geared towards students at all levels as well as staff, the series offers the community a shared focus for discussions of contemporary debates in photography.
For any queries on the Photography Forum series, please contact David Moore, E: [email protected] or Lucy Rogers, E: [email protected]
