About
Peter Watkins (b. 1984, UK) is an artist based in Prague. His autobiographical work begins with photography and examines personal and collective trauma, loss, and memory. He approaches photography expansively, working through spatial, sculptural, and moving-image installations. He also develops socially engaged projects, including Postcards for Palestine, which addresses solidarity, visibility, and collective resistance through image-making. He graduated from the University of Westminster (2008) and the Royal College of Art (2014).
Recent solo exhibitions include Galerie NoD, Prague (2022); Webber Gallery, London (2017); Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool (2016); The Ravestijn Gallery, Amsterdam (2016); Format Festival, Derby (2015); and Brighton Photo Fringe (2014).
His work has been reviewed in The Guardian, British Journal of Photography, 1000 Words, American Suburb X, Hotshoe, Another Magazine, Source, Photoworks, and Paper Journal.
Awards include the Guernsey International Photography Award (2018), the inaugural Skinnerboox Book Award with Polycopies (2019), and the Brighton Photo Fringe Award (2014). He was shortlisted three times for the Foam Paul Huf Award, as well as for the BJP International Photography Award (2015) and the Magnum Graduate Award (2015).
His book The Unforgetting was shortlisted for the Rencontres d’Arles Author Book Award (2020) and was named one of The Guardian’s best books of 2019. Works from his collaboration with Tereza Zelenková, Index of Time, are held in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and Museum Winterthur, Switzerland.
Recent solo exhibitions include Galerie NoD, Prague (2022); Webber Gallery, London (2017); Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool (2016); The Ravestijn Gallery, Amsterdam (2016); Format Festival, Derby (2015); and Brighton Photo Fringe (2014).
His work has been reviewed in The Guardian, British Journal of Photography, 1000 Words, American Suburb X, Hotshoe, Another Magazine, Source, Photoworks, and Paper Journal.
Awards include the Guernsey International Photography Award (2018), the inaugural Skinnerboox Book Award with Polycopies (2019), and the Brighton Photo Fringe Award (2014). He was shortlisted three times for the Foam Paul Huf Award, as well as for the BJP International Photography Award (2015) and the Magnum Graduate Award (2015).
His book The Unforgetting was shortlisted for the Rencontres d’Arles Author Book Award (2020) and was named one of The Guardian’s best books of 2019. Works from his collaboration with Tereza Zelenková, Index of Time, are held in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and Museum Winterthur, Switzerland.
