Dr Paul Lowe
Title
Professor of Conflict Peace and the Image
College
London College of Communication
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Biography
Paul is Professor of Conflict, Peace and the Image at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.Paul is an award-winning photographer and educator, whose work is represented by Panos Pictures, and who has been published in Time, Newsweek, Life, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Observer and The Independent amongst others. He has covered breaking news the world over, including the fall of the Berlin Wall, Nelson Mandela’s release, famine in Africa, the conflict in the former Yugoslavia and the destruction of Grozny.
He is a consultant to the VII foundation and Academy on online education of professional photojournalists in the majority world. His book, Bosnians, documenting 10 years of the war and post-war situation in Bosnia, was published in April 2005 by Saqi books. He regularly contributes to international and national conferences in Photography, Media and Education, and has published chapters in edited books on these themes as well. His most recent books include “Photography Masterclass”, “Understanding Photojournalism”, ‘Reporting the Siege of Sarajevo” and "Photography, Bearing Witness and the Yugoslav Wars, 1988-2021".
His main research interests lies in photojournalism and documentary photography and the role of art and culture in post conflict societies
He is particularly interested in the relationship of photography and conflict, and the effect of photojournalism on public discourse. He is currently working on research around the ethics of representations of suffering, especially around the concept of bearing witness to trauma, and also on the materiality of the photograph.
He has written and researched extensively on the photographic documentation of Genocide and War Crimes, in particular the Liberation of the Concentration Camps in 1945, and the conflict in the Former Yugoslavia. His practice as a photographer is also related to these themes, with a recent body of work being a series of portraits of Rescuers, people who saved others during the genocide in Bosnia.