(1987 - )
Born in Guildford, Samuel Fordham is a multidisciplinary artist working with photography, text, video and sound. Fordham’s work considers personal and collective identities through structures of image distribution, engagement and meaning. He first studied at the East 15 Acting School, London (2005-8), followed by an MA in European Classical Acting, Drama Centre London, London (2008-9), and an MA in Photography, University of the West of England, Bristol (2017-19). His work has been selected for awards and exhibitions including the AOP Emerging Talent Award (2020); Paris Photo Carte Blanche (2019); Magenta Foundation Flash Forward (2019); ‘Bloomberg New Contemporaries’, Leeds Art Gallery and South London Gallery (2019, 2020); and ‘Foundations’, Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol (2018). Fordham lives and works in Bristol, and alongside his practice, is course leader on the BA (Hons) Documentary Photography and Print provision in Bristol for boomsatsuma / The Royal Photographic Society.
