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Paul Graham
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Born | 1956 |
Nationality | British |
Education | Self-taught |
Known for | Fine art photography |
Website | paulgrahamarchive |
Paul Graham (born 1956) is an English fine-art and documentary photographer whose work has been exhibited, published and collected internationally.
Graham has won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, the Hasselblad Award, a W. Eugene Smith Grant, fellowships from Winston Churchill Memorial Trusts,John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Royal Photographic Society, and won the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards prize for best photographic book of the past 15 years.
Graham has been a prolific and well published artist, including two survey monographs, by SteidlMack (2009) and Phaidon (1996), along with 10 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.
His work has been exhibited extensively – notably participating in the Italian Pavilion of the 49th Venice Biennale (2001), the inaugural exhibition at Switzerland's national Fotomuseum Winterthur, and most recently a solo exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art. He was one of the 24 photographers included in the Tate Gallery's landmark "Cruel and Tender" survey exhibition of 20th century photography (2003), and a European mid career survey exhibition at Museum Folkwang, Essen, and touring from 2009–2011 to the Deichtorhallen, Germany, and Whitechapel Gallery, London.
Graham's work is held in the following public collections: