Draft:Paul Wright (curator)

Paul Wright (Curator) (born 1978) works with photography as a curator.  He is the founder of British Culture Archive which he founded in 2017.

Life and Work

Wright was born in Wythenshawe, Manchester, 1978.

He was inspired to create British Culture Archive as a platform for photography that he thought was being overlooked by the industry, particularly images of working class society that he could relate to. Wright is an influential figure within British Documentary Photography and has written numerous texts and interviewed photographers such as Peter Mitchell, Richard Davis and Jurgen Schadeberg.

Exhibitions curated by Wright


 * The People's City, The Refuge, Manchester, January–September 2020. With work by Peter J Walsh, Rob Bremner and Richard Davis.
 * British Shorts, Sputnik Kino, Kreuzberg, Berlin, January 2020 – January 2021. With works by Tish Murtha, Rob Bremner and Richard Davis.
 * A Woman's Work, The Refuge, Manchester, March – June 2022. With work by Tish Murtha and Anne Worthington.
 * A Celebration of Life in the North, Bury Art Museum, Feb-May, 2023. With work by Luis Bustamante, Don Tonge and Thomas Blower's images of the Rock Against Racism Northern Carnival, 1978.