Stephen Gill

Gill began photography at a young age. In 1985, while still at school, Gill began work with a Bristol-based photography company, copying and restoring old photographs. Two years later, he began working full-time in a one-hour photo lab. In 1992 he enrolled in a Photography Foundation course at Filton College in Bristol and, a year later, began work at Magnum Photos in London. In 1997 he become freelance photographer
Gill currently lives in Hackney, London, England. 
Gill’s photographs are held in private and public collections and have also been exhibited at London’s National Portrait Gallery, The Victoria & Albert Museum, Decima Gallery, Agnes B, the Victoria Miro Gallery, Galerie Zur Stockeregg, the Gun Gallery, The Photographers' Gallery, Palais des Beaux Arts, Leighton House Museum, and Haus der Kunst.
Gill's photographs have appeared in international magazines including The Guardian Weekend, Le Monde 2, Granta, The New York Times Magazine, Tank, The Telegraph Magazine, I-D magazine, The Observer, Blind Spot and Colors.



I find his work very clever because he makes things that we would never think about looking at, let alone taking a picture, and giving it a life and adding a story behind it which we would never have thought of.