Ray's a Laugh

About this Author

Richard Billingham (b. 1970) is an English photographer, artist, filmmaker, and art teacher. His work has mostly concerned his family and the West Midlands where he grew up. Billingham?s publications include Ray?s A Laugh (1996), Black Country (2003), Zoo (2007), and Landscapes, 2001?2003 (2008). He has made several short films, including Fishtank (1998) and Ray (2016). Billingham adapted the latter into his first feature film, Ray & Liz (2018), a BAFTA-nominated memoir of his childhood. He won the 1997 Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize (now the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize) and was shortlisted for the 2001 Turner Prize. His work is held in the permanent collections of Tate, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Government Art Collection in London. Billingham lives on the Gower Peninsula in South Wales and holds professorships at Middlesex University and the University of Gloucestershire.