He has taught Photographic Studies at the Derby School of Art (1985 -1993) and at the University of Westminster (1993-1997). Since 1997, he is Head of the Photography programme at the Royal College of Art , where he became a Professor in 2006.
His photographic work investigates the artifice of Representation, mainly through the genre of the still life and animal portraiture. Research questions include the relation between the eye and other sense impressions; photography and literature; temporality and narrative forms in the still and the moving image.
His work is in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Arts Council of England; Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris; Museum Folkwang, Essen; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Brooklyn Museum, New York; N
more...He has taught Photographic Studies at the Derby School of Art (1985 -1993) and at the University of Westminster (1993-1997). Since 1997, he is Head of the Photography programme at the Royal College of Art , where he became a Professor in 2006.
His photographic work investigates the artifice of Representation, mainly through the genre of the still life and animal portraiture. Research questions include the relation between the eye and other sense impressions; photography and literature; temporality and narrative forms in the still and the moving image.
His work is in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Arts Council of England; Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris; Museum Folkwang, Essen; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Natiomore...