BA (Hons) Photography Guest Lecture by Peter Marlow
24 November 2010 at 2pm in the Solent Lecture Theatre (SM019)
Peter Marlow joined Magnum Photos in 1981 and became a full Member in 1986. Although gifted in the language of photojournalism, Peter Marlow is not a photojournalist. He was initially, however, one of the most enterprising and successful young British news photographers, and in 1976 joined the Sygma agency in Paris.
Since those days, Marlow's aesthetic has shifted - in that he makes mainly color photographs - but his approach is unchanged. The color of incidental things became central to his pictures in the same way that the shape and mark of things had been central to his black and white work.
Marlow started his career as an international photojournalist, returned to Britain to examine his own experience, and discovered a new visual poetry that enabled him to understand his homeland. Having found this poetry, he has taken it back on the road. He now photographs as much in Japan, the USA and elsewhere in Europe as he does in the UK.