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Barry Lewis: Online talk hosted by Jennifer Nash

    Thursday 11 March 19:00 via Zoom

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    Barry Lewis is a man of many talents. As well as engaging in photo-journalism he has directed over 20 short films including commercials and art films.

    Originally, Barry Lewis was the head of the chemistry department at a school in Leicestershire but his personal interest in photography was already there. In 1974 he won a scholarship from the Royal College of Art to complete an MA in photography. Two years later he won the Vogue award and joined the magazine as a staff photographer before embarking on a long career as a freelance photographer.

    Lewis has worked internationally for books and magazines such as Life magazine and National Geographic and, as a freelance photographer, he has covered international stories for magazines and newspapers as well as working on over twenty books. Just here in the UK, his work has been exhibited in the V&A museum, Oxford Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of London and The Photographers Gallery to name but a few.

    In 1981, along with seven others, he co-founded Network Photographers. Before it closed in 2005, Network Photographers was a significant British agency, with an archive of over a million images and a critical forum for image making for over twenty years.

    Barry Lewis’ work has been exhibited worldwide and he has won several awards for his work, the most important being the World Press Oskar Barnack Award in 1991, for a photo-essay on Romania after the revolution. He has recently published books with Hoxton Mini Press and a number of zines with Cafe Royal Books. Lewis collaborates with other creatives such as sound artists, musicians and performers and continues to pursue his photographic vision.

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