Anthony Luvera

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Anthony Luvera (born 1974)[1] is an Australian artist, writer and educator, living in London.[2] He is a socially engaged artist who works with photography on collaborative projects, which have included working with those who have experienced homelessness and LGBT+ people. Luvera is an Associate Professor of Photography at Coventry University.

Stories from Gilded Pavements was shown in 11 central London Underground stations and is held in the collection of London Transport Museum. Frequently Asked Questions (with Gerald Mclaverty) was shown at Tate Liverpool.

Career[]

Luvera is an Associate Professor of Photography in the Research Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities, at Coventry University.[3] He is also Chair of the Education Committee at the Royal Photographic Society.[4]

He edits Photography for Whom?, a journal about socially engaged photography, which he set up in 2019.[1]

Luvera has worked extensively with people who have experienced homelessness. Many of these projects use his "assisted self-portrait" methodology, where the subject of the photograph, assisted by Luvera, makes and selects the pictures.[2][5][6] One such project, Stories from Gilded Pavements, was displayed in 11 central London Underground stations in 2005, part of Art on the Underground.[7]

In another ongoing project on homelessness, Luvera and Gerald Mclaverty have conducted iterations of their Frequently Asked Questions. This project involves sending basic questions to councils across the UK, asking how to access systems of care for people experiencing homelessness.[2][8] Many councils fail to respond, treat the questions as freedom of information requests, or reply with automated lists of links. The resulting exhibitions collate information about the range of responses from councils.[9][10][11]

in 2013/14, with Not Going Shopping, Luvera made collaborative self-portraits with LGBT+ people in Brighton and Hove.[12][13] The portraits were exhibited as large-format posters in outdoor public spaces across the city and copies of a newspaper were distributed for free.[14] In 2017 in Northern Ireland, for 'LGBTQ Visions of Peace in a Society Emerging from Conflict', Luvera conducted a similar project with 7 participants: Let Us Eat Cake. This project was published as a book and exhibited in galleries.[15][16]

Publications[]

Publications[]

  • Residency. Belfast: Belfast Exposed, 2011. By Luvera. With essays by Luvera, Anthony Downey, and Colin Graham. Edited by Karen Downey. ISBN 9780952421771. Edition of 1000 copies.
  • Not Going Shopping. Brighton: Photoworks, 2014. Newspaper format. Edition of 3000 copies. Photographs and text by Luvera, J Bayliss, Raphael Fox, Ten Harber, Sarah Magdalena Love, Kelly McBride, Harry Pygar, Luc Raesmith, Matt Robinson, Kate Turner, Edward Whelan, and Charlie Wood.[17][n 1]
  • Let Us Eat Cake. Belfast: Belfast Exposed, 2017. By Luvera, Paul Campbell, Sarah Cromie, Raymond Dunn, Chris Finlay, Rachael Kathleen, Natalie McFall, and Ciaran Rafferty. ISBN 978-0956176639. With an essay by Edwin Coomasaru, "Queer life and kindship : Anthony Luvera's Let us eat cake (2017)".

Books edited[]

  • Queer in Brighton. Brighton: New Writing South, 2014. Edited by Luvera and Maria Jastrzębska. Includes Not Going Shopping. ISBN 9-780-992-826-000.

Journals edited[]

  • Photography for Whom?. Issue 1, 2019.
  • Photography for Whom?. Issue 2, 2021.

Publications with contributions[]

  • Photography and Collaboration: From Conceptual Art to Crowdsourcing. Bloomsbury; Routledge, 2017. By Daniel Palmer. Hardback, ISBN 9781474233460. Paperback, ISBN 9781350008311.

Exhibitions[]

Collections[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Not Going Shopping can be viewed here within the Photoworks site.

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Homer, Nicola. "Anthony Luvera – interview: 'Photography is a way of telling stories about the world'". Studio International. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Anthony Luvera: "Homelessness is a structural problem"". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
  3. ^ "Anthony Luvera". Coventry University. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
  4. ^ "RPS Postgraduate Bursary". rps.org. Retrieved 2021-07-28.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b "Art on the Underground: Anthony Luvera: Stories from Gilded Pavements". Transport for London. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
  6. ^ "The lockdown has transformed life for the homeless — but what happens now?". Financial Times. 24 June 2020. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
  7. ^ "Tube photos give homeless insight". BBC News. 25 January 2005. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
  8. ^ "Homeless man dies in freezing alleyway behind Hilton hotel amid string of rough sleeper deaths across UK". The Independent. 20 November 2019. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b "Artist's homeless questions unanswered by councils". BBC News. 3 December 2019. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b "Exhibition shows a reaction to a homeless person's Frequently Asked Questions". The Big Issue. 14 November 2019. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
  11. ^ Scott, Ellen (18 January 2020). "Photographer invites homeless people to co-create their own self portraits". Metro. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
  12. ^ "Capturing the teenage years". BBC News. 30 January 2017. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  13. ^ "Immersive interactions: Photography from the inside out". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  14. ^ "Not Going Shopping, newspaper". Anthony Luvera. 10 February 2014. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  15. ^ Jump up to: a b "Let Us Eat Cake". Belfast Exposed. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  16. ^ Jump up to: a b "The Playhouse". Derry Playhouse. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  17. ^ "Anthony Luvera: not going shopping". Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  18. ^ "Stories from Gilded Pavements". BBC News. 25 January 2005. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
  19. ^ "Frequently Asked Questions by Anthony Luvera and Gerald Mclaverty – Workshop at Tate Liverpool". Tate. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
  20. ^ Turtle, Jessica. "Frequently Asked Questions by Anthony Luvera & Gerald McLaverty". Museum of Homelessness. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  21. ^ "Refine your search". London Transport Museum. Retrieved 2021-06-20.

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