Biography
Anna Fox (b. Alton, Hampshire, UK 1961) has influenced documentary photography and video for many years. Solo exhibitions include Impressions Gallery (2018); The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (2000); and The Photographer’s Gallery, London (1990); with several monographs published. She completed her degree in Audio Visual studies at The Surrey Institute, Farnham in 1986 and has been working in photography and video for over twenty years. Anna is Professor of Photography at the University for Creative Arts in Farnham.
Influenced by the British documentary tradition and US 'New Colourists' her first work Workstations (published by and exhibited first at Camerawork, London 1988) observed, with a critical eye, London office culture in the mid Thatcher years. 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 solo shows have been seen at The Photographers' Gallery, London, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago and her work has been included in numerous international group shows - Through the Looking Glass, Centre odf teh Creative Univeerse: Liverpool and the Avant-garde and How We Are: Photographing 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.
