Anna Fox is a British documentary photographer, born in Alton, England, in 1961. She studied Audio Visual Studies at West Surrey College of Art and Design in Farnham, graduating in 1986, and is Professor of Photography at the University for the Creative Arts, where she leads the research project Fast Forward: Women in Photography.
She first came to attention with Work Stations: Office Life in London (Camerawork, 1988), a critical look at office culture in the Thatcher years, made in color with flash. Later work includes the autobiographical Cockroach Diary and My Mother’s Cupboards and My Father’s Words, and Resort, made at Butlin’s in Bognor Regis. A major monograph, Anna Fox Photographs 1983–2007, was published by Photoworks in 2007.
Country Girls (Setanta Books, 2023) is her collaboration with the singer Alison Goldfrapp, who also grew up in Alton. It draws on the 1867 murder of Fanny Adams and the Flood Meadows where her remains were found. Fox was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize in 2010, received an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in 2019, and has shown at The Photographers’ Gallery, Tate Britain and Tate Modern.
