Staff Profiles

ACADEMIC STAFF:

Conrad Tracy Conrad Tracy - Course Leader

As Course Leader Conrad has written and developed one of the most exciting and successful photography degree’s in the country. Conrad is also an active member of The Association for Photography in Higher Education, including being a member of the Executive Committee for 3 years. Helping him to maintain a high profile in the photographic community.

 

Professionally Conrad has freelanced for editorial clients, including the Observer Magazine and the Saturday and Sunday Times Magazines. Work has also been represented by the world’s largest image bank, seeing his images used for advertising and promotion. He continues to make work and when he has time to take on occasional commissions. He has developed a network of important contacts within the photographic industry that both enrich the courses’ contemporary currency and inform the curriculum, this includes agents, picture editors, stylists, advertising creatives, art directors, photographic assistants and photographers.  

 

Recently Conrad chaired the War on Want Photography Award ‘Document’ 2010 as well as Co-curating an International Student Photography exhibition as part of New York Photography Festival 2010.

 
Paul Allen

Paul Allen BA (Hons) MA, PGCE(HE), HEA Fellow.

With a background in documentary/editorial practice, Paul’s landscape work explores ideas about narrative, the perceptions of place and space, and the photograph as academic knowledge. His pedagogic research is concerned with the experience of adult learners studying part-time within the contexts of art, design and media.
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Paul Wenham-Clarke MA, FBIPP.

Senior Lecturer in Photography & Research Fellow

AoP Gold Award Winner 2010 (Documentary series).

Paul has worked as a self-employed advertising and commercial photographer for over 20 years and during this time has won 16 national professional photographic competitions or awards. In 2004 Paul produced a personal portrait project called ‘When Lives Collide’ which toured the Uk and was also shown in Greece in 2010 (Crete & athens). He latest work is called 'Hard Times' and is on show at St Martins-in-the-Fields Crypt Gallery from 3rd March to 30th June 2011. Paul won an Association of Photographers Gold Award in 2010 for this work, which is one of the industries highest awards.

Web sites to view:

http://www.wenhamclarke.com/

http://www.whenlivescollide.co.uk/

 
Aaron Schuman

Aaron Schuman is an American photographer, editor, writer and curator based in the United Kigdonm. He received a B.F.A. in Photography and Historu of Art from New York University's TischSchool of Arts in 1999, and an M.A. in Humanities and Cultural Studies, from the University of London's Consortium in 2003. Having assisted various photographers most notably, Annie Leibovitz and Wolfgang Tillman's - Aaron began to pursue his own freelance career in 2000. He has exhibited his photographic work internationally and has contributed photography article, essays and interviews to publications such as Aperture, Foam, Photoworks, Artreview, Modern Painters, HotShoe International, The British Journal of Photography, Creative Review, The Guardian, The Observer, The Telegraph and The Sunday Times. Schuman was the curator of 'Whatever Was Splendid: New American Photographer's, one of the principal exhibtions at the 2010 FotoFest Biennial. He is also the founder, director and editor of the online phtography journal, SeeSaw Magazine (http://www.seesawmagazine.com). For more information, please visit: http://aaronschuman.com 

Richard Lloyd Lewis MA, BA (Hons): Senior Lecturer in Photography

With over 10 years experience working as a photographer and art director, Richard has worked for clients in the Advertising, Music / Design, Editorial and Publishing field, clients range from ITV, BAT, Cobra Beer and Toblerone to various high profile acts in the music industry. Lewis has exhibited  nationally along side artist such as Tracey Emin, Steve Pyke, Hannah Starkey, Gavin Turk, Nadav Kander, Martin Parr, Paul M Smith, Bridget Riley and John Swannell. Lewis's photographic prints are now held in several notable private collections. Lewis has a Masters Degree in Photography from The University of the Arts London - LCC and a BA (Hons) Degree from Exeter School of Art & Design- University of Plymouth. He is a memeber of the creative practice-led research network Land2 (Land Squared) and exhibits with Transistor group artists.

website: www.lloydlewis.co.uk

 

TECHNICIAN DEMONSTRATORS:
The primary role of the Technician Demonstrators is the supporting of learning and teaching. They manage all of the resources within photography and promote professional working practices.


Andy Cope BA (Hons), PGCE (HE), member of the ILF, and an HEA Fellow.
Andy has undertaken photographic commissions since 1985, working alongside other professionals to broaden his knowledge whilst developing his own visual voice.  He established himself as a full-time freelance photographer in 1991, involved in social and commercial photography. Andy teaches on short courses covering photographic lighting techniques across a wide range of disciplines, working with a diverse student body.


Anne Edwardes BA (Hons), PGCE (HE), HEA Fellow, member of APHE and the IFL.
Anne is currently studying for an MA in Photography here at the AUCB. Her research interests are process based and lie in juxtaposing archaic processes and digital capture - investigating Domesticity and the Landscape.  
 
Ben Roberts FdA, MA (Hons).
A 2006 graduate of AUCB, Ben has recently returned to the college after 3.5 years working in the photographic industry in London. This included 2 years as first assistant to award-winning photographer Zed Nelson, and the undertaking of his own commercial assignments for clients such as Le Monde, Newsweek, and UEFA.
 
In 2009, Ben won the BJP’s Project Assistance Award for his work exploring the impact of the economic crisis in Spain, and in 2010 was named by American magazine Photo District News as one of their 30 New Photographers to watch.
 
Ben’s work has been exhibited in London, New York and Warsaw, and he is represented by the Lisa Pritchard Agency in London, and Picturetank in Paris.
 
Chris Moles BA (Hons).
After a career in engineering, Chris studied photography at AUCB. He has contributed to a number of exhibitions, worked as an assistant, and undertaken commissions as a freelance photographer. His work is held in several private collections.
 
Chris’ current landscape work attempts to reveal physically evident human intervention with the environment resulting from social, political and economic forces, and where fragments from almost entirely separate worlds co-exist side by side.
 
He is currently working towards a solo show and a book.