Paul Reas

Quick Facts

Full Name	Paul Reas
Occupation	British Photographer
Date Of Birth	Feb 14, 1955(1955-02-14)
Age	69
Birthplace	England
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Aquarius

Paul Reas Biography

Paul Reas is one of the most popular and richest British photographer who was born on February 14, 1955 in England, United Kingdom. Paul Reas (born 1955) is an British photojournalist as well as a professor at the university. He is most famous for his photographs of consumption in Britain during the 1980s and 1990s.

Reas has written his books I Can Help (1988) and Flogging a Dead Horse: Heritage Culture and its Function within Post-industrial Britain (1993) and Fables of Faubus (2018). His solo exhibitions have been held at the Photographers’ Gallery as well as London College of Communication, London; Cornerhouse, Manchester as well as Impressions Gallery, Bradford. His work is part of the collections of the British Council.

In 1993, Reas began a series, Portrait of an Invisible Man, that examined the mystery of his distant and mostly absent father “by photographing the microcosm which a child observes in the macrocosm of home”. The curators of an exhibition at the Barbican wrote of this series: “Paul Reas’s meticulously constructed descriptions of domestic life may perhaps exorcise demons, the ghouls and goblins which inhabit a child’s imagination; they are photography as remedy, as exhumation and a personal adventure on a grand scale.”

He taught at the Faculty of Arts, University of Brighton, from 1993 to 1998. He is course leader of documentary photography at the University of Wales, Newport.

In 1985, he and Ron McCormick were the first photographers chosen from Ffotogallery located in Wales in the context of their Valleys Project to each produce the work of a group that “focussed on the changing topographic landscape and the partial introduction of new technology into a latter day industrial wasteland”. Other photographers who were selected were David Bailey, Mike Berry, John Davies, Peter Fraser, Francesca Odell, Roger Tiley and William Tsui.

Paul Reas Net Worth

Paul Reas is one of the richest British Photographer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Paul Reas 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He quit Bradford to pursue a degree in document photography in the University of Wales, Newport from 1982 until 1984. David Hurn was course head and among his teachers included Daniel Meadows, John Benton-Harris and Martin Parr. Following six academic years at the undergraduate level, and becoming a college photography technician then a photographer for hire.

The first book by Reas, I Can Help, showcases supermarkets, superstores and similar establishments, shot between 1985 and 1988. Val Williams writes that “The people who Reas photographed emerged from its pages . . . as lost souls, modern Ancient Mariners adrift in an ocean of endless choices.” The photos (1989-1993) in his book Flogging a Dead Horse, “explored the rise of the heritage business, taking issue with what he judged to be the cynical re- writing of the past of British working people by the leisure industry” The books represent “edgy, viciously satirical comments on our appetite for vicarious experience.”

Williams writes that Reas’s work of the early 1990s “assume a documentary stance, but they are essentially polemical.” Robert Clark writes in The Guardian:

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Paul Ranked on the list of most popular British photographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Paul Reas celebrates birthday on February 14 of every year.