Paul Yule
Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and photographer
For over four decades, Paul Yule has explored politics, culture and identity through documentary film and photography—creating work that has challenged censorship, examined power, and documented lives at the centre and on the margins of history.
His films for the BBC and Channel 4 include Damned in the USA, the landmark documentary whose successful defence in a US court became a defining moment in the fight against artistic censorship, and Battle for the Holocaust, widely regarded as a seminal work on memory and representation.
Alongside his filmmaking, Yule’s photographic practice spans more than forty years, most recently brought together in his retrospective My Developing Eye, as well as in the book The New Incas – an extended body of work documenting life in and around Cusco, Peru.
Selected Works
- Damned in the USA — Legal victory against censorship in the United States
- Battle for the Holocaust — Landmark documentary on historical memory
- The New Incas — Four decades of photography in Peru
- Martin Chambi and the Heirs of the Incas — BBC Documentary about Martin Chambi
- In The Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin — Landmark BBC documentary
His work moves between film and photography, combining political inquiry with a sustained attention to the human condition.
