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Professor Richard Sawdon Smith is an internationally exhibiting and award-winning photographer. He is a former winner of the John Kobal/National Portrait Gallery Photographic Portrait Award, a Board Member of The bookRoom Press & Archive, on the Editorial Panel of the Journal of Photography & Culture, a member of the Visual AIDS Archive, and Co-editor of Langford’s Basic Photography and The Book is A Live!. His photographs and writing are widely published.

Main research fields and specialisms

Photographic self-portraiture; artists representations of their own diseased or damaged body exploring issues of ill health, identity and subjectivity, sexuality and classification; the AIDS body; photography in relation to institutions practices, photographic archives and tattooing; and the artist/photographic book.

Research grants and awards

Authored Essays and Edited books

Works in Books

Citations in Books/Journals

Works in Exhibition Catalogues

Works in Magazines/Online

Conference Organisation

Conference papers

Practice and research outputs

External Examiner Roles

Director, BA (Hons) Photography Director and Professor, BA (Hons) Fine Art

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