Susan Bright

Curated exhibitions

• Icons of Pop , National Portrait Gallery, London, June - September 1999
• Artists of the 1990s National Portrait Gallery, London, January – June 1999
• Published Portraits Association of Photographers Gallery, London, January 2001
• Faith & Brazil Incarnate: Mike Abrahams & Christopher Pillitz Association of Photographers Gallery, London, April 2001
• Gun Nation: Zed Nelson Association of Photographers Gallery, London, June 2001;
• Building Sights: London Architectural Photography Association of Photographers Gallery, London, September 2001; then toured with the British Council to Lithuania and Estonia);
• Truth and Lies: Jillian Edelstein Association of Photographers Gallery, London, February 2002;
• Enterprise Works, Barge House, London, November 2004; then toured to Mailbox Birmingham; Discovery Museum, Newcastle; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 2005.
• 1+1=3: Collaboration in Contemporary British Portraiture, Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia, March–April 2006; Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, April–May 2007.
• Face of Fashion: Corinne Day, Mert & Marcus, Steven Klein, Paolo Roversi & Mario Sorrenti, National Portrait Gallery, London, February–May 2007.
• How We Are: Photographing Britain, co-curated with Val Williams, Tate Britain, London, May–September 2007.
• Something Out of Nothing, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway, October–November 2007.
• Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood, The Photographers' Gallery, London; Foundling Museum, London, October 2013 – January 2014; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, April–July 2014; Belfast Exposed, Belfast, Northern Ireland, October 2014–January 2015.

  Publications

• Art Photography Now. London: Thames & Hudson, 2006.
• *Second revised edition. Thames & Hudson, 2011..
• How We Are: Photographing Britain from the 1840s to the Present. Edited and with texts by Bright and Val Williams. London: Tate, 2007.. With essays by Gerry Badger and Martin Parr, and by Kevin Jackson.
• Face of Fashion: Photographs by Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott, Corinne Day, Steven Klein, Paolo Roversi and Mario Sorrenti. New York: Aperture, 2007.. With work by Mert and Marcus, Corinne Day, Steven Klein, Paolo Roversi, and Mario Sorrenti.
• Auto Focus: The Self-Portrait in Contemporary Photography. London: Thames & Hudson, 2010..
• Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood. 2013.. Edited by Bright. With essays by Bright, Stephanie Chapman, Nick Johnstone and Simon Watney and photographs by Janine Antoni, Elina Brotherus, Elinor Carucci, Ana Casas Broda, Ann Fessler, Tierney Gearon, Miyako Ishiuchi, Fred Hüning, Leigh Ledare, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Katie Murray and Hanna Putz,
• Feast for the Eyes. New York: Aperture, 2017..