Professor Paul Wenham-Clarke

Professor Paul Wenham-Clarke is the MA Photography course Leader at Arts University Bournemouth and is multi-award-winning photographer. Once a commercial and advertising photographer Paul applies his past practice to documentary photography creating a hybridised approach. Some of the images make uneasy viewing, whilst others draw the eye with a surface beauty, but they all contain an underlying message that questions our very way of living. His work has been widely exhibited over the last 16 years including The National Portrait Gallery, The Victoria & Albert Museum, Somerset House and St Martin-in-the Fields Gallery Trafalgar Square and has been featured on the BBC2 Culture Show.

In 2003 he graduated from Nottingham Trent University’s Photography Research Master’s Degree programme with a Distinction for his project When Lives collide. He went on to further develop the project and found corporate sponsorship from Green Flag Motor Assistance. With their support he toured the exhibition around the UK and later it went on to Greece.

In 2006 he was the overall winner of the Association of Photographers Open Competition and in 2007 he joined Arts University Bournemouth and undertook several periods of Research Fellowship to make large bodies of documentary work. Culminating in 2010 when he won an Association of Photographers Gold Award for his project Hard Times made to mark the 20th anniversary of The Big Issue. In 2015 he became Professor of Photography at Arts University Bournemouth and the course leader of the MA Photography.

He continues to use his photography to explore contemporary social and environmental issues and was pleased to be invited to make the second When Lives Collide exhibition for Roadpeace. He hopes like the first exhibition made in 2003 that it changes opinions and informs new generations of drivers.

Paul can be contacted at paul@wenhamclarke.com