Dr. Paul Lowe was born on November 6th, 1963, UK.

Paul was a Professor of Conflict, Peace and the Image at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. Paul was an award-winning photographer and educator who has been published in Time, Newsweek, Life, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Observer, and The Independent, amongst others. He has covered breaking news worldwide, including the fall of the Berlin Wall, Nelson Mandela’s release, famine in Africa, genocide in Rwanda, the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, and the destruction of Grozny. He is a contributing photographer and educator of The VII Foundation. His book, “Bosnians”, documenting ten years of the war and post-war situation in Bosnia, was published in April 2005 by Saqi Books. He regularly contributed to international and national conferences in Photography, Media, and Education and has also published chapters in edited books on these themes. His most recent books include “Photography Masterclass,” “Understanding Photojournalism,” ‘Reporting the Siege of Sarajevo” and “Photography, Bearing Witness, and the Yugoslav Wars, 1988-2021”. His main research interests was in photojournalism and documentary photography and the role of art and culture in post-conflict societies. He was particularly interested in the relationship between photography and conflict and the effect of photojournalism on public discourse. He was researching the ethics of representations of suffering, especially around the concept of bearing witness to trauma and the materiality of the photograph. His photographic work received the most prestigious awards and recognition from Amnesty International and multiple awards at World Press Photo.