John Volynchook was born in Liverpool. He lives and works in the UK.
He studied physiology and biochemistry at the University of Reading (BSc, 1980) and social work at the University of York (MSW, 1994). In 2014 he earned an MFA in Photographic Arts, with distinction, at the University of Plymouth. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the Royal Photographic Society.
His book Faultlines was published by GOST Books in 2024. It is a hardback with 88 pages and 48 images. Between 2015 and 2021 he traveled by bicycle and on foot to photograph UK landscapes threatened by fracking, in black and white. An Arts Council grant awarded in 2015 part funded the project. Before that he published Beyond the Shingle Bank (2012, self-published).
