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Richard Billingham
Shortlisted: 2001

Billingham is best known for his candid and intimate photographs of his family, taken at their home in the West Midlands between 1990 and 1996. They feature his alcoholic father Ray, his mother Liz and his younger brother Jason. Though they document working class poverty, Billingham's photos are not self-consciously political; instead they address identity in personal terms, through family relationships.

Richard Billingham was born in Birmingham, England in 1970. From 1991 to 1994 he studied at the University of Sunderland. He was shortlisted in 2001 for his photographic exhibition, held at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, which displayed a 'poignant return to places of childhood memory.'

This information has been taken from The Turner Prize: Twenty Years, by Virginia Button, Tate Publishing, 2003.

View Richard Billingham in the Tate Collection