Paul Graham (photographer)


Paul Graham is an English fine-art and documentary photographer. His work has been exhibited, published and collected internationally.
Graham has won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, the Hasselblad Award, the W. Eugene Smith Grant, fellowships from Winston Churchill Memorial Trusts, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and won the inaugural Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards prize for best photographic book of the past 15 years.

Life and career

Graham has been a prolific and well published artist, including three survey monographs, by Mack, SteidlMack and Phaidon, along with 17 other publications. One book, Empty Heaven, is devoted to Japan; another, A Shimmer of Possibility, comprises 12 volumes examining the nominal life in the USA.
Between 1981 and the end of 1982, Graham photographed people and places along the A1 road in Britain, from the Bank of England in the City of London, and travelling north. His portrait of the nation was published in 1983 as A1: The Great North Road.
His work has been exhibited extensively—notably participating in the Italian Pavilion of the 49th Venice Biennale, the inaugural exhibition at Switzerland's national Fotomuseum Winterthur, and a solo exhibition at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. He was one of the 24 photographers included in Tate Gallery's Cruel and Tender survey exhibition of 20th century photography, and a European mid career survey exhibition at Museum Folkwang, Essen, and touring from 2009 to 2011 to the Deichtorhallen, Germany, and Whitechapel Gallery, London. A 2015 survey of his American work, The Whiteness of the Whale was the first solo exhibition at Pier 24 in San Francisco, and toured to the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Bombas Gens in Valencia; and Rencontres d'Arles, France.

Publications

Graham's work is held in the following public collections: