Professor Paul Wenham-Clarke

Paul has become well-known for his documentary photography and his work Hard Times for The Big Issue Foundation and was exhibited at St Martin-in-the-Fields Gallery in the Crypt for four months in 2010 and 112,000 visitors attended and it was featured on the BBC2 Culture Show.

In 2013 his project The Westway: a portrait of the community was part of his Research Fellowship activities and so was funded by AUB. The resulting work was also shown as a solo exhibition at St Martin-in-the-Fields Crypt Gallery, 52,000 people attended.

The Urban Gypsies, part of the Westway project, was shortlisted for The World Photography Organisation’s Awards 2013. The images went on to be shown at Somerset House, and at the V&A Museum as part of the Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month. One of the images from the show (Cindy & Shirley) was selected for the Taylor-Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition 2013 and was shown at the National Portrait Gallery.

The Urban Gypsies went on to be published in hard back in June 2019 by Hoxton Mini Press and sold out at the stands at Photo London in May 2019. The book was featured widely including CNN Lifestyle, The Face and Marie Claire.

Paul made the change from an advertising and commercial photographer to a documentary photographer in 2004 when he made a personal project called When Lives Collide. This work examined the loss of life on a British roads and was sponsored by Green Flag Motoring Assistance. First shown at The OXO gallery on the South Bank the work went on to tour the UK, and was even shown in Greece in 2010 (Crete and Athens).

2018 Paul was included in The Association of Photographers AOP50 exhibition Images that define an age which celebrated the association’s fiftieth anniversary. Thousands of images were considered from over the last 50 years and only 60 were selected.

In 2019 work from Paul’s new project Our Human Condition was a winner in the British Journal of Photography’s Portrait of Britain Competition.