1961 | Born : Deal (UK)
education
BA (Hons) Photography : Nottingham Trent University (UK) 1985 - 1988
BA (Hons) Photography : London College of Printing (UK) 1985
Art & Design Foundation Diploma : Lincoln College of Art (Lincoln, UK) 1983 - 1984
awards
Hariban Award (Kyoto, Japan) Shortlist : 2019
Wolf Suschitzky Photography Prize (London/Vienna) inaugural UK Winner : 2018 / 2019
Mark Rothko Memorial Trust Award (Daugavpils, Latvia) Shortlist : 2018
Prix de la Photographie (Paris, France) 1st Prize : Farmed monograph & Farmed series / 2nd Prize : People’s Choice 2016
Tokyo International FotoAwards (Japan) Third Prize : Farmed series : 2016
Moscow Foto Awards (Russia) Third Prize : Farmed series : 2016
Prix de la Photographie (Paris, France) Second Prize : Truncated monograph : 2009
Prix de la Photographie (Paris, France) Second Prize : Truncated series : 2008
solo exhibitions
2022 Etherton Gallery - Paul Hart : The Fens (Tucson, USA) April 5 - May 28
2020 Fen Ditton Gallery - Edgelands (Cambridge, UK) Sept - Oct
2019 Fen Ditton Gallery - Land Lines (Cambridge, UK) Oct (invited artists Fay Godwin / Mark Steinmetz)
2019 The Photographers’ Gallery Print Room - Drained (London, UK) July
2018 The Photographers’ Gallery Print Room - Poetry of Place (London, UK) Jan - Feb
2013 Atlas Gallery- Truncated (London, UK) Jan - March (on-line)
2012 Jaggedart - The Naked Land (London, UK) - Feb - March
2006 Jaggedart - Nature’s Solace (London, UK) - Nov - Dec
selected group exhibitions / art fairs
2022
Auckland Photography Festival : VITAL IMPACTS (NZ) upcoming June
Photo London : Somerset House - Dewi Lewis Publishing (UK) May
FOTO WIEN - Rethinking Nature : Festival Centre (Vienna, Austria) March
Hastings Contemporary - A Generous Space : ASP Shows (UK) until April
2021
Paris Photo : Grand Palais Éphémère - Dewi Lewis Publishing (France) Nov
Carpintaria de São Lázaro - Rethinking Nature : Imago Lisboa (Portugal) Oct
Fen Ditton Gallery - WATER / LAND (Cambridge, UK) Oct
Casino Luxembourg - Rethinking Nature : European Month of Photography (Luxembourg) May
2020
Fen Ditton Gallery - Plant Life (Cambridge, UK) Oct
Photo London Digital - Dewi Lewis Publishing (UK) Oct
2019
Hull International Photography Festival - RPS International Print Exhibition 161 (UK) Oct
Photo London : Somerset House - Dewi Lewis Publishing (UK) May
Royal Academy of Arts - Summer Exhibition (London, UK) June
Municipal Gallery - RPS International Print Exhibition 161 (Dublin, Eire) July
The Photographers’ Gallery Print Room - Spring Salon Show (London, UK) May
Midland Arts Centre - RPS International Print Exhibition 161 (Birmingham, UK) March
Austrian Cultural Forum - Wolf Suschitzky Photography Prize (London, UK) Feb
Royal Photographic Society RPS International Print Exhibition 161 (Bristol, UK) Feb
2018
Fen Ditton Gallery - Trees Observed (Cambridge, UK) Sept
Royal Academy of Arts - Summer Exhibition (London, UK) June
Photo London : Somerset House - The Photographers’ Gallery (UK) May
Centre Culturel ARCADE - La Campagne (Sainte-Colombe, France) May
The Photographers’ Gallery Print Room - Spring Salon Show (London, UK) April
2017
University of Cambridge - Artificial Things : ART at the ARB (UK) - Jan
The Photographers’ Gallery Printroom : SummerSalon Show (London, UK) -Aug
2016
The Photographers’ Gallery Print Room - When Frost was Spectre-grey (London, UK) Dec
Paris Photo : Grand Palais - Eric Franck / Augusta Edwards Fine Art (France) Nov
Na Kashirke Gallery - Moscow International Foto Awards (Russia) Aug
Espace Beaurepaire - Prix de la Photographie Awards (Paris, France) July
Photo London : Somerset House - Eric Franck Fine Art (UK) May
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew - International Garden Photographer Awards (London, UK) Jan
2015 - 2009
The Photographers’ Gallery Print Room - Winter Salon Show (London, UK) Sept 2015
The Photography Show by AIPAD : Eric Franck Fine Art (NYC) April 2015
Atlas Gallery - Collected Works (London, UK) March 2014
Royal Academy of Arts - Summer Exhibition (London, UK) June 2013
London Art Fair : Business Design Centre (London, UK) Jaggedart | Jan 2012
Paris Photo : Grand Palais : Eric Franck Fine Art (France) Nov 2011
London Art Fair : Business Design Centre : Jaggedart (UK) Jan 2011
London Art Fair : Business Design Centre : Jaggedart (UK) Jan 2010
Paris Photo : Carrousel du Louvre : Eric Franck Fine Art (France) Nov 2009
The Photography Show by AIPAD :Eric Franck Fine Art (NYC) April 2009
Acte 2 Galerie : Prix de la Photographie Awards Exhibition (Paris, France) July 2009
residencies and collaborations
Wolf Suschitzky Photography Prize Residency : Vienna (Austria) : 2021
Ilford Photo International marketing campaign images : 2011 - present
Getty Images represent Hart’s early horticultural photography : 1995 - present
permanent collections
V&A Museum (London, UK) : Farmed series prints : 2019
Ivor Braka Collection (London / Norfolk, UK) : Truncated and Farmed series prints : 2018
Austrian Cultural Forum (London, UK) : Drained series prints : 2019