Paul Seawright

Seawright gained an art foundation at Ulster University, Belfast; a BA (Hons) in Photography, Film and Video from West Surrey College of Art and Design, where his tutors included Paul Graham and Martin Parr; and a PhD from the University of Wales.

[3] In this series, he photographed the sites of sectarian murders around Belfast, and paired the images with newspaper reports from the period.

More recently, he has made photographs in post-war Afghanistan,[4] urban Africa (Invisible Cities)[n 1] and America.

His photographs of minefields and battle sites have been exhibited internationally and are in numerous public collections.

[9][10] Seawright was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to higher education and the arts.