Curriculum Vitae

Born 6/9/1939

1957-60
Studied photography at the London School of Printing and Graphic Arts.

1961 - 65
Worked as freelance photo-journalist in London for various national newspapers and magazines.

1963
Organised and exhibited in ‘Four Photographers’ show at Lund Humphries, London.

1965 - 74
Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer in Photography at Chelsea School of Art.

1971
Published ‘How We Are’, a collection of 216 photographs with an introduction by John Berger,
Allen Lane The Penguin Press, London.
Exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.

1972 - 74
Wrote regular photographic criticism for ‘The Guardian’.

1972 - 75
Commissioned to produce ‘Workless’, a study of unemployment with a text by Dennis Marsden,
published by Penguin Books, Harmondsworth in 1975.

1974 - 78
Principal Lecturer, then Course Tutor - Communication Design,
North East London Polytechnic.

1976
Film - ‘Janet & John - grow up’, produced by the British Film Institute Production Board.

1978
Exhibited at Aberbach Fine Art, London.

1979 - 90
Principal Lecturer - Course Tutor for BA (Hons) degree in Photography,
Trent Polytechnic, now Nottingham Trent University.

1980 - 83
Produced photographic portrait of Corby Glen, sponsored by the
Willoughby Memorial Trust and exhibited at their gallery in the village.

1989
Contributed to ‘Through The Looking Glass’, the major retrospective of British photography
since 1945, held at the Barbican Gallery, London.

1990
Invited to guest lecture at Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design, Jerusalem.

1993
Commissioned to photograph three schools in Sleaford for North Kesteven District Council,
exhibited at the Pearoom Gallery, Heckington.

1997
Exhibited at Bend in the River, Gainsborough.

2002
Hand made, ‘dummy’, versions of all photographic books, published and unpublished,
donated to the Mass Observation archive at Sussex University.

 

2005
Joint subject of and contributor to exhibition and conference "Archives from the new British photography of the 70s: Euan Duff & Peter Mitchell" at the Gardner Arts Centre, University of Sussex.

2007
Contributed to the 'How We Are: Photographing Britain' exhibition at Tate Britain, London.

Four sequences of photographs presented in book form and one early commercial portfolio book were accepted as a donation to its photographic archive by the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

November 2008
Donated prints of Joan Littlewood to the Theatre Collections at the Victoria & Albert Museum
and prints of the political cartoonist Vicky to the British Cartoon Archive at the University of Kent.

April 2009
A further 8 books have been donated to the University of Sussex Library Special Collections, which can be visited online now for the first time.