John Angerson

Tuesday 20 March 2025 5:00pm-8:00pm

5:00pm - Welcome drinks in the foyer
6:15pm - Auditorium opens to take your seats
6:30pm - Talk starts

Booking is essential as places are limited.

Location: Leeds Arts University, Blenheim Walk, Leeds LS2 9AQ

Join us as Leeds Arts University Creative Networks chat to award-winning portrait, documentary, editorial and commercial photographer, John Angerson.

Creative Networks is Leeds Arts University's own major professional events programme. It’s a fantastic chance to meet other professionals and hear fascinating talks from industry leading speakers.

John Angerson started his career in the early 1990s, covering the fall of the Berlin Wall and the changing geopolitical landscape of Eastern Europe. Since then, his work has continued to explore the different languages of documentary photography, focusing on how specific communities form, shift and develop. His projects have garnered critical acclaim and exhibited at major art institutions in the UK and overseas.

His monograph - Love, Power, Sacrifice (published by Dewi Lewis, Manchester) documented the Jesus Army over twenty years and peers into a microcosm of a fanatical religion. His most recent book; English Journey (published by B&W studio, Leeds) was a 4-year photographic travelogue across England in the footsteps of Bradford author J.B. Priestley. The work presents a purposefully non-nostalgic, contemporary view of England. It casts the lens on the globalized economic framework at call centres, transnational hotel chains and the co-dependency of international outsourcing. The work was shown in exhibitions across the UK and Europe and the book has sold across three continents since its publication.

He now splits his time between shooting personal projects, teaching at various Universities and shooting features and portraiture for various magazines, charities and design agencies.

Recent work includes: Sunday Times, New York Times, Rolling Stone and Der Spiegel.

John will be interviewed by BA (Hons) Photography Senior Lecturer, Ross Williams.