Val Williams is a curator and writer and Professor of the History and Culture of Photography, University of the Arts, London. She is Director of the Photography and the Archive Research Centre at the London College of Communication and the editor of the Journal of Photography and Culture.
Having established Impressions Gallery in York, Val went on to curate a number of seminal British photography projects such as The Other Observers (1994), Who’s Looking at the Family (1994), The Dead (1995) and Look at Me: Fashion Photography from 1960 to the present (1998).
Photoworks projects include the Country Life Series (1998), Six Small Airports (2001), the publication Derek Ridgers – When We Were Young, Club and Street Photography 1978-1987 (2004) and Anna Fox Photographs 1983- (2007). She curated the exhibition and conference at the University of Sussex: Archives of the New British Photography of the 1970s. (October 2005).
Val curated Martin Parr’s retrospective at the Barbican Art Gallery, London and authored the accompanying Phaidon publication. In 2005 she was joint curator of Magnum Ireland for the Irish Museum of Modern Art and joint author of Magnum Ireland (Thames and Hudson). She was awarded the Dudley Johnstone medal for curation by the Royal Photographic Society in 2005. In 2007, she co-curated, with Susan Bright, the exhibition How We Are: Photographing Britain for Tate Britain. She is currently researching the work of Daniel Meadows.
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