PAUL YULE
Photographer · Filmmaker · Artist
Paul Yule‘s work over five decades has explored history, identity, politics and culture – from apartheid South Africa and the Peruvian Andes to the American culture wars and the intensely personal work of recent years.
Among more than 30 films for the BBC and Channel 4 are Damned in the USA, the Emmy award-winning documentary whose successful defence in a US court became a defining moment in the fight against artistic censorship, and Battle for the Holocaust, regarded as a seminal work on memory and representation.
Chosen for LensCulture Critics’ Choice 2025 Yule’s photojournalism can be seen in his books
- The New Incas — Four decades observing the collision of ancient Andean culture and the modern world
- Portraits and Demons– Themes of loss, inner conflict and emotional complexity mixing photography and sculpture following the death of his son
- Damned in the USA — International Emmy winner. Subsequently the subject of an $8 million attempt to prevent its US distribution. Channel 4 fought the case — and won
- My Developing Eye – A photographer’s eye developing across a lifetime
- Battle for the Holocaust — Who owns history – and what happens when memory becomes politics?
- Martin Chambi and the Heirs of the Incas — How photography led to filmmaking. BBC Arena Documentary
- In The Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin — Landmark BBC biography
- Current Work
