Anna Fox

Born in 1961 in Hampshire (England), she lives and works in London.

Anna Fox started out as a documentary photographer. She came to critical attention with her reportage on Workstations in 1988, which described the lives of office workers under the Thatcher government. Anna Fox, always sensitive to the complexity and ambivalence of the lifestyles of 'ordinary' people, has observed more unfamiliar populations, from the inhabitants of a Sussex village (The Village, 1995) to wargame publishers who test their software by playing war in Friendly Fire (Allied Camp Fire, 1994). 

Zwarte Plet, exhibited for the first time in Europe, evokes an astonishing Dutch tradition in which white Dutchmen put themselves in the shoes of black characters from another era. These scenes, steeped in ancient history and governed by custom, show us contemporary society in search of mythology and magic.