Richard Billingham

Quick Facts

Full Name	Richard Billingham
Occupation	Photographer
Date Of Birth	Sep 25, 1970(1970-09-25)
Age	54
Birthplace	Birmingham
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Virgo

Richard Billingham Biography

Richard Billingham is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on September 25, 1970 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. Richard Billingham, born 25 September 1970, is an English photographer, artist and film maker. His family is the main focus of his work, although he has also taken inspiration from other landscapes.

He was nominated for the 2001 Turner Prize and won the Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize (now Deutsche Borse Photography Prize). His work can be found in the permanent collections at Tate, Victoria and Albert Museums, and the Government Art Collection in London.

He has also made landscape photographs at places of personal significance around the Black Country, and more of these were commissioned in 2003 by the arts organisation The Public, resulting in a book.

In late 2006, Billingham exhibited a major new series of photographs and videos inspired by his memories of visiting Dudley Zoo as a child. The series, entitled Zoo, was commissioned by Birmingham-based arts organisation, Vivid and was exhibited at Compton Verney Art Gallery in Warwickshire. A book of the work was published the following year.

Billingham is most well-known for his photography book Ray’s A Laugh (1996). This book documents the lives of Ray’s alcoholic father Ray and Liz, his obese, tattooed mother. He also published the books Black Country (2003) and Zoo (2007) as well as Landscapes 2001-2003 (2008). He has also made short films like Ray (2016) and Fishtank (1998). The latter was adapted by Billingham into Ray & Liz (2018) which is a memoir about his childhood.

Richard Billingham Net Worth

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

Billingham had an exhibit at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, UK, in 1996. He was also included in the 1997 exhibition Sensation at Royal Academy of Art, which featured the Charles Saatchi art collection and many of the Young British Artists. Billingham was also awarded the Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize (now Deutsche Borse Photography Prize) in 1997. For his solo exhibition at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Billingham was shortlisted for 2001 Turner Prize.

Billingham was born in Birmingham. He studied painting at Bournville College of Art, and the University of Sunderland. His candid photographs of his family in Cradley Heath were his first major accomplishment. Later, he published a collection of these works in Ray’s A Laugh (1996). Ray’s a Laugh depicts the poverty and deprivation in his childhood. Billingham used the cheapest film, and most affordable development. Ray, his father and mother Liz are at first glance a bizarre pair. The father is an alcoholic and the mother is an obese chain smoker who seems to be obsessed with nicknacks. This work is so honest that Ray and Liz shine through as flawed, yet deeply humane and touching characters. Julian Stallabrass, a critic, describes Ray and Liz in terms of “what is in myth a particularly British spirit and resilience in the face of the tempestuous modernity.”

In 1998 Billingham made his first documentary video, Fishtank, a study of his father filmed with a handheld camera. It was commissioned by Artangel and Adam Curtis for BBC Television and shown on BBC Two in December 1998. Since 2011 Fishtank has been part of The Artangel Collection – 25 notable films available for loan, free of charge, to publicly funded UK museums and galleries.

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Facts & Trivia

Richard Ranked on the list of most popular Photographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Richard Billingham celebrates birthday on September 25 of every year.

Is Ray and Liz based on true story?

Written and directed by the artist Richard Billingham, “Ray & Liz” is an extension of his work as a photographer, which subsists largely of portraits of his own family. This is a fiction film , with actors playing all the real-life characters, but Billingham has crafted it with a documentary concern for detail.

Where does Richard Billingham live?

Billingham wrote and directed his first feature film, Ray & Liz, in 2018. It is a memoir of his childhood and his parents, told in three separate time frames. He now lives on the Gower Peninsular in South Wales. He holds professorships at the University of Gloucestershire and Middlesex University.

Who influenced Richard Billingham?

I probably read most of them – there weren’t many there but I got to know who Picasso was. Constable was the artist who influenced me the most. He was a naturalist and his empirical approach to landscape painting has interested me all this time. Since I was 11 I have been interested in nature.

When was Richard Billingham born?

September 25, 1970 (age 51 years)

What happened to Richard Billingham's brother Jason?

Jason still lives in Birmingham , where he works as a road-drainage surveyor, mapping motorway puddles (and “probably earning more than me,” Billingham says). I wondered what he had made of the film? “I showed it to him on a link early on, and he said it was just how he remembered it.