United Kingdom Photographers

In October 1833, while on his honeymoon at Lake Como, Talbot tried to sketch with a camera lucida and was frustrated by what he saw as his own lack of drawing skill.

David Octavius Hill was born in Perth, Scotland, in 1802 — a painter, printmaker, and founding member and long-serving secretary of the Royal Scottish Academy.

Julia Margaret Cameron was already forty-eight when her daughter gave her a camera in 1863.

Fenton, trained as a lawyer, became one of the key figures behind the founding of the Royal Photographic Society in 1853.

Robert Adamson was born in 1821 in Burnside, Fife, Scotland, the son of a farmer.

Thomas Annan was commissioned by the Glasgow City Improvement Trust to photograph old closes and streets marked for clearance under nineteenth-century urban reform.

Frederick H. Evans was born in London in 1853.

Peter Henry Emerson argued that photography should be truthful to human vision rather than to studio convention.

George Rodger (1908-1995) was a British photographer who worked as a war correspondent during World War II and later devoted himself to long-term documentary projects in Africa.

Bill Brandt was one of the most important British photographers of the twentieth century.

Born in London in 1935, Don McCullin became one of the defining photojournalists of the postwar period through his coverage of Cyprus, Biafra, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Northern Ireland.

Born in Wales in 1936 and deceased in 2008, Philip Jones Griffiths is known as a Magnum photographer whose Vietnam Inc.

British / Manx photographer, born in 1946 and died in 2020.

Martin Parr changed documentary photography by bringing saturated color, electronic flash, and intrusive closeness into the depiction of ordinary British life.

British artist born in 1971, based in London, working across print, digital media, collage, video, and text-based image practices.

British photographer born in 1959.

British photographer born in 1956, later based in the United States.

British artist born in 1965, working across film, photography, drawing, and writing.

British artist born in 1970, first widely known for the photographic series *Ray’s a Laugh*.

British photographer born in 1971, known for books and series that reinvent documentary photography through material experiment.