Henry Bond
Henry Bond is an Brighton-based writer, photographer and visual artist whose work has encompassed photography, contemporary art, psychoanalysis and forensic theory.
Bond studied at Goldsmiths, University of London, graduating in 1988. In 1990 he and Sarah Lucas organised the East Country Yard Show, an exhibition regarded as influential in the emergence of the Young British Artists (YBA) movement. Bond subsequently worked alongside artists including Damien Hirst, Liam Gillick, Angela Bulloch and Sam Taylor-Wood.
During the 1990s, Bond worked as a photojournalist for The Face, photographing British fashion, music and youth culture. His photography frequently appropriated and reworked familiar visual genres, including fashion, surveillance, paparazzi photography and documentary imagery. His major publications include The Cult of the Street (1998), documenting street fashion in London, and Point and Shoot (2000), which examined surveillance, voyeurism and paparazzi photography.
Bond also pursued academic work in psychoanalysis. He obtained an MA in Psychoanalysis from Middlesex University and completed doctoral research at the University of Gloucestershire in 2007. His book Lacan at the Scene (2009) brought together psychoanalytic theory and forensic investigation.
His photographic and artistic work has been exhibited internationally, including projects made collaboratively with other artists. He later taught postgraduate photography at Kingston University, where he was appointed Senior Lecturer in Photography.
Bond's work occupies an unusual position between photography, contemporary art and psychoanalytic theory, reflecting his longstanding interest in how images construct, record and interpret contemporary life.
Contact Natasha with any enquiries.
