Anna Fox (born 1961) is aBritishdocumentary photographer, known for a "combative, highly charged use of flash and colour".^[1][2] In 2019 she was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of theRoyal Photographic Society.

Fox completed her degree in Photography atWest Surrey College of Art and Design inFarnham, Surrey in 1986^[3] under tutorsMartin Parr,Paul Graham andKaren Knorr.^[4]

Fox first came to attention with her 1988 documentary study of London office life on the mid-1980s,Work Stations: Office Life in London. She is perhaps best known for herZwarte Piet series made between 1993 and 1998, published as the bookZwarte Piet, which documents 'black face'folk culture traditions in theNetherlands. Between 2001 and 2003 she published four monographs in her "Made in" series:Made inMilton Keynes,Made inKansas,Made inGothenburg andMade inFlorence. From 2009, Fox photographed for two years atButlins in Bognor Regis for her bookResort 1 - Butlin's Bognor Regis.^[5][6][7]

She currently works as head of photography atUniversity for the Creative Arts in Farnham.^[1][8]

A retrospective 300-page bookPhotographs 1983-2007 byVal Williams was published byPhotoworks in 2007.

In November 2009 Fox was shortlisted for the 2010Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, held at the Photographers Gallery, London,^[1] and the 2012 Pilar Citoler Prize.^[3] In 2019, Fox was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of theRoyal Photographic Society.

The criticSean O'Hagan, reviewingResort 1 - Butlin's Bognor Regis inThe Guardian, said "Her work often hones in on the particular to suggest the universal, such as her series The Village (1991–1993), in which rural England becomes a pastiche of itself even as the individual lives glimpsed therein seem vividly real."^[6]

David Chandler, in his essayVile Bodies, in the bookAnna Fox Photographs 1983-2007, said Fox is "widely regarded as an important part of what might be called the 'second wave' of British colour documentary photography" and that she "helped form its particular style of combative, highly charged use of flash and colour".^[2]

• Work Stations: Office Life in London Photographed by Anna Fox. Camerawork, 1988.ISBN 978-1871103007.
• Street Dreams: Indian Vernacular Studio Photographs. Booth-Clibborn, 1997.ISBN 978-1861540713. Edited byVal Williams.
• Cockroach Diary. Shoreditch Biennale, 2000.ISBN 978-0953319923.
• Zwarte Piet. London:Black Dog, 2001.ISBN 978-1901033861.
• Made in Europe. Milton Keynes Gallery, 2001-2003. Five small paperbacks. Made in Milton Keynes 2001,ISBN 0-9536755-5-6. Made in Gothenburg 2002,ISBN 0-9542029-2-9. Made in Kaunas 2002,ISBN 0-9542029-1-0. Made in Florence 2003,ISBN 0-9542029-5-3. Made in Los Cristianos 2003,ISBN 0-9542029-4-5. Photographs and texts made by teenagers in five European cities.
• Resort 1 - Butlin's Bognor Regis. Amsterdam: Schilt, 2013.ISBN 978-9053308035. Text by Stephen Bull.
• Portraits from an Island. Newsprint catalogue with essay, 2015

• Anna Fox Photographs 1983-2007. By Val Williams. Brighton:Photoworks, 2007.ISBN 978-1903796221. With texts by David Chandler, Val Williams,Jason Evans andMieke Bal.
• Basics Creative Photography 03: Behind the Image: Research in Photography. London:AVA, 2012.ISBN 978-2940411665. WithNatasha Caruana.
• Langford's Basic Photography: The guide for serious photographers. By Michael Langford, Fox, and Richard Sawdon Smith.
  • Waltham, MA: Focal Press, 2015.ISBN 978-0415718912. Tenth edition.

• 1990:In Pursuit, solo exhibition,Photographers' Gallery, London, 30 November 1990 – 19 January 1991.^[9]
• 2009:Cockroach Diary and Other Stories,Ffotogallery,Turner House Gallery, Penarth, Wales.^[10]
• 2011:Resort,Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK, 25 June – 2 October 2011.^[11]
• 2011:Resort, James Hyman Photography, London, 12 October – 12 November 2011.^[12]

• 2019: Honorary Fellowship of theRoyal Photographic Society, Bristol.^[13]

• Official website
• Fox at James Hyman

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