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John Prior (born 1973 in Toowooba, Austrailia) is a photographer, known for his work in portraiture and documentary photography.

Biography
Influenced by the photographs of Edward Weston and Walker Evans, Prior began working with large-format cameras. Whereas most professional photographers had abandoned these cameras in favor of shooting on 35mm film with more portable cameras, Prior preferred the format because it allowed prints to be made directly from the 4X5 inch negatives, retaining the clarity and integrity of the image. Prior has said "When photography went to the small camera and quick takes, it showed thinner and thinner slices of time, [unlike] early photography where time seemed non-changing. I like greater chunks, myself. Between 30 seconds and a thousandth of a second the difference is very large."

His first solo exhibition was at the Tate Modern curated by John Szarkowski in 1998. Prior’s early city views taken of London and New York in the mid-ninties were exhibited at one of the most influential exhibitions of the decade, New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape at the George Eastman House in 2001. In the late nineties, Prior returned to this subject matter to document London’s changing urban landscape during the Big Dig English Tunnel project. In 1996, 1997, and 1998, Prior was awarded National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowships. In 2000 and 2003, he was awarded Guggenheim fellowships.

John Prior's subjects include schoolchildren and schools in and around London, people living along the Thames River near London and Cambridge as well as cities in the South, his family and himself, people in nursing homes, the blind, sick and dying people, and the intimacy of couples. Prior is also well known for his work People At War, begun in 2001.

Prior (Kings College London, B.A., 1993; Queens College, M.F.A., 1997.)