Anna Fox
Anna Fox is one of the most acclaimed British photographers of the last twenty-five years and is Professor of Photography at the University of Creative Arts, Farnham.
Working in colour, Fox first gained attention for Work Stations: Office Life in London (1988), a study of office culture in Thatcher's Britain, originally commissioned by Camerawork and The Museum of London.
She is best known for Zwarte Piet (1993-8), a series of twenty portraits taken over a five-year period that explore Dutch black-face' folk traditions associated with Christmas.
Other projects have included The Village (1992), a multi-media collaboration with the writer Val Williams, examining the experiences of rural women, and Friendly Fire, which records the leisure activity of paint-balling in the manner of war reportage.
More recent publications include Cockroach Diary and My Mother's Cupboards and My Father's Words (2000), which deal with autobiographical narratives and were designed as miniature, limited edition books.
A major monograph, Anna Fox Photographs 1983 - 2007, was published by Photoworks in 2007, the same year in which Fox was included in the Tate Gallery's major exhibition, How We Are. Photographing Britain.
Her most recent exhibition, Cockroach Diaries & Other Stories, opened at Impressions Gallery, Bradford in 2008 then toured to the Winchester Gallery and Ffotogallery, Cardiff, 2009. It showed autobiographic narratives that combined photographic evidence with frustrated diary entries.
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Telling Stories
Picture Post and its Legacy 29 Mar - 10 Jun 2022The exhibition presents some of the key photographers of Picture Post magazine as well as a curated selection of some later British photographers who built on this storytelling or documentary...Read more -
Spitting
Photographs by Andrew Bruce and Anna Fox 22 - 8 May 2015One of the most popular television programmes of the 1980s and 1990s, watched by an audience of 15 million people at its peak, Spitting Image was a British satirical show...Read more -
Country Matters
Bert Hardy, Roger Mayne, Tony Ray-Jones, Colin Jones, Chris Killip, Homer Sykes, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Martin Parr, Mark Power, Anna Fox, Ken Grant 11 Sep - 7 Nov 2013The exhibition explores constructions of Englishness, from eccentric to conformist, aristocrat to working class, northern and southern, black and white, old and young, work and leisure, rural and urban. Covering...Read more -
Anna Fox. Resort
12 Oct - 12 Nov 2011Produced over a two year period, the series captures the many facets of the modern holiday experience. Specifically focusing on the Bognor Regis resort, Fox has created a group of...Read more -
From Talbot to Fox
150 Years of British Social Photography 16 - 20 Mar 2011In order to build on this earlier New York exhibition, James Hyman Photography's AIPAD exhibition From Talbot to Fox broadens the range of photographers shown in order to provide a...Read more -
Exposure 2011
Jim Cooke, Anna Fox, Stuart Griffiths, Clarita Lulic, Regine Petersen & Vanessa Winship 10 Mar - 23 Apr 2011Selected from more than 200 applicants, these six artists were judged to reflect the significant range and diversity of photographic practice visible in the UK today. The 2010 awardees whose...Read more -
Convulsive Beauty
Surrealist Photography and its Legacy 6 Jan - 5 Feb 2011James Hyman Photography's newest exhibition Convulsive Beauty explores the legacy of the Surrealist's psychological, physical, spacial and sexual freedom. The themes of this exhibition derive from an appreciation of the...Read more -
London Calling
Anna Fox, Stephen Gill, Nigel Shafran 25 Feb - 1 May 2010London Calling explores the way that Anna Fox, Stephen Gill and Nigel Shafran have taken the capital city as their home and subject matter. It suggests a specificity in their...Read more -
Interior Worlds
Carruci, Cohen, Fox, Knorr, Letinsky, Terada 12 - 17 Jan 2010Elinor Carucci's fresh take on the established genre of portraiture weaves together intricate strands of the artist's own life. Carucci encapsulates moments of intimacy with her extended family; her parents,...Read more