I am a writer, curator, photographer and lecturer. I taught art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and am the author of Killing for Show: Photography, War and the Media in Vietnam and Iraq, Rowman and Littlefield 2020; Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2020; Art Incorporated, Oxford University Press 2004; Internet Art: The Online Clash Between Culture and Commerce, Tate Publishing, London 2003; Paris Pictured, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2002; High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s, Verso, London 1999 and Gargantua: Manufactured Mass Culture, Verso, London 1996. I am also an editorial board member of New Left Review. I curated the 2008 Brighton Photo Biennial, ‘Memory of Fire: Images of War and the War of Images’. In 2013 my edited reader Documentary for the MIT/ Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art appeared; also my edited book based on the Brighton Biennial, Memory of Fire, published by Photoworks, Brighton.

The photographs here are of two main types: my own personal photography, old and new, and pictures taken at various contemporary art events. The main sets in which my personal photos appear are Gargantua, The Anatomy of Photography, Actually Existing Sculpture and Shadow.

All photos are displayed under a non-commercial Creative Commons licence. If you want to use anything for commercial purposes, please contact me.