Biography
Anna Fox (b. Alton, Hampshire, UK 1961) studied Audio Visual Studies at West Surrey College of Art & Design / The Surrey Institute, Farnham, now UCA (1986). Fox has influenced documentary photography and video for many years, starting by recording new town life in Basingstoke in 186/87. Solo exhibitions include at Impressions Gallery (2018); The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (2000); and The Photographers' Gallery, London (1990); with several monographs published. Influenced by the British documentary tradition and US 'New Colourists' her first work Workstations; Office Life in London (published by and exhibited first at Camerawork, London 1988) observed, with a critical eye, London office culture in Thatcher's Britain. Later work documenting weekend wargames, Friendly Fire, was exhibited in the exhibition Warworks at the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Netherlands Foto Institute and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography. Her work has been included in numerous international group shows - Through the Looking Glass, Barbican Art Gallery andf Centre of the Creative Universe: Liverpool (1989) and The Avant Garde (Tate Liverpool) and How We Are: Photographing Britain (Tate Britain), amongst others. She has had several monographs of her work published, a new book of her work, Anna Fox Photographs 1983 -2007, edited by Val Williams was published by Photoworks in 2007 and a new exhibition of her work Coackroach Diary and Other Stories, curated by Anne McNeill was toured by Impressions Gallery in 2018. Fox has been Professor of Photography at the University for Creative Arts in Farnham since 2004.
