Who is Lewis Bush?

Lewis Bush  was born in 1988 and is a British photographer, writer, curator and educator. He aims to draw attention to many forms of power that operate in the world as he believes it is by nature always “abusive, arbitrary and untransparent”.

Bush  studied history at the University of Warwick and gained a master’s degree in documentary photography from London College of Communication.  He also lectures on photojournalism and documentary photography at LCC.

From 2011 to 2016 he wrote and edited a blog about photography, Disphotic. Its tagline was “Exploring photography and it’s [sic] intersections with journalism, art, and history.”

In 2012, for The Memory of History, Bush travelled through ten European Union countries to examine the effects of the European debt crisis, in the context of Europe’s turbulent history of crises that are forgotten, only later to reappear. Bush’s intentions were to show the process happening again, where unresolved history is reappearing “with the economic pain of the present”, using photographs that show “connections between history and the present”.

Bush has  also worked on numerous of other projects for example ‘The Camera Obscured’ where he set up cameras outside sensitive sites around London where he was therefore challenged by security guards. He completed these projects to capture the boundaries that were preventing people from accomplishing things and also the struggles of everyday things.

A selection of Lewis Bush’s images