Samuel Fordham

Samuel Fordham at Spike Island Open Studios (2024). Photograph by Samuel Fordham.

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Samuel Fordham is an artist, educator and printmaker based in Bristol, UK.

His work has been shown internationally in the UK, Italy, France, China, Lithuania, Georgia, Latvia and Ireland. His work has won and been selected for awards including Paris Photo Carte Blanche Award, Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Magenta Foundation Flash Forward, AOP Emerging Talent Award, Kaunas Photo Star Award, Production Paradise Emerging Talent Award and the AOP Student Award.

Fordham’s work has been placed in the Government Art Collection and has been featured in publications including, e-flux, The British Journal of Photography, Fisheye, Creativeboom, Rolling Stone Italia, The Royal Photographic Society Journal, The Royal Photographic Society Contemporary Photography Journal, and Time Out.

Alongside his artistic practice, Fordham is course leader on the BA (Hons) Photography and Print provision in Bristol for boomsatsuma.

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