Paul Bullivant – portfolio

Contact the artist

https://www.paulbullivant.co.uk
07849 952648
paul.f.bullivant[at]gmail.com

Exhibition information

During Oxfordshire Art Weeks 2026 I am showing a small selection of my many portrait photographs taken on my travels around the world including friends and strangers met along the way.

Although I am essentially a documentary photographer, recording what I see and experience, my work encompasses a range of styles and approaches developed over many yeas.

I am a passionate traveller both to exotic lands and also across the amazing British isles, as well as around my adopted city of Oxford. I often travel on foot, sometimes covering long distances, and never without my camera.

I relish serendipitous encounters, often with strangers in strange locations, which are the source of many of my portrait studies. My early training as an architect sustains my interest in the best and the worst examples of the human environment, both ancient and modern.

For me, as an individual and as a photographer, everything in this extraordinary and precious world that we briefly inhabit is interesting and worth photographing with passion, humanity and wherever possible, with gentle humour!

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Artist information

I was born in Birmingham where I studied architecture in the 1960s. I lived in southern Spain for 6 years before moving to Somerset and then to Bristol where I worked as an architect and in social housing and community development. I took the MA course in documentary photography at Newport in 2002 and worked as a photographer as well as pursuing my personal projects. In 2021 I moved to north Oxford where I continue my passion to document the world around me as I experience it both here and in foreign lands.