Paul Hill

Paul Hill (* 1941 in Ludlow, Shropshire) worked as a newspaper reporter from the late 1950s until he became a freelance photographer in 1965.  He became a full-time lecturer in photography at Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham in 1974 where he was later appointed head of the Creative Photography course, the forerunner to all current student-centred higher education courses in the medium.

His work is in the art collections of, amongst others, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford; Arts Council England; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm; Australian National Gallery, Canberra ; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Cleveland Museum of Art in the USA.

He was made a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 1990 and, four years later, was awarded an MBE by The Queen for services to photography. Between 1995 and 2010 he was a professor at De Montfort University, Leicester, and set up the MA in Photography course in 1996, which was of the first in Britain. Birmingham City Archives, which houses one of the country's major collections of photographs, acquired the Paul Hill/ Photographers' Place Archive in 2004. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Art by Derby University in 2011 and De Montfort University in 2012.
 

In 2016 Paul was honoured with the Royal Photographic Society's Education Award.

 

The Collection contains a set of vintage prints from the series "Mobile Objects, 1981".

 

 

 

Mobile Objects, Caravan, 1981. Silver gelatin print, vintage. 40,4 x 30,5cm (paper size), signed © Paul Hill / courtesy IKS PHOTO Collection

 

Mobile Objects, Dumper, 1981. Silver gelatin print, vintage. 40,4 x 30,5cm (paper size), signed © Paul Hill / courtesy IKS PHOTO Collection

 

Mobile Objects, Exavator, 1981. Silver gelatin print, vintage. 40,4 x 30,5cm (paper size), signed © Paul Hill / courtesy IKS PHOTO Collection

 

Mobile Objects, Generator, 1981. Silver gelatin print, vintage. 40,4 x 30,5cm (paper size), signed © Paul Hill / courtesy IKS PHOTO Collection

 

Mobile Objects, Land Rover, 1981. Silver gelatin print, vintage. 40,4 x 30,5cm (paper size), signed © Paul Hill / courtesy IKS PHOTO Collection

 

Mobile Objects, Lorry Trailer, 1981. Silver gelatin print, vintage. 40,4 x 30,5cm (paper size), signed © Paul Hill / courtesy IKS PHOTO Collection

 

Mobile Objects, Wuffler, 1981. Silver gelatin print, vintage. 40,4 x 30,5cm (paper size), signed © Paul Hill / courtesy IKS PHOTO Collection