PAUL YULE
Photographer · Filmmaker · Artist
For five decades Paul Yule‘s work has explored history, identity, politics and culture – from apartheid South Africa and the Peruvian Andes, to the American culture wars, to the intensely personal work of recent years.
Among more than 30 films for the BBC and Channel 4, and several books of photography, are:
Damned in the USA 
International Emmy winner and the subject of an $8 million lawsuit to prevent its US distribution. Channel 4 fought the case — and won — and the film became a defining moment in the fight against artistic censorship
Photojournalism from four decades observing the collision of ancient Andean culture and the modern world
Portraits and Demons 
– Mixing portrait photography and sculpture, the book explores themes of loss, inner conflict and emotional complexity following the death of his son
A photographer’s eye developing across a lifetime
Battle for the Holocaust 
Who owns history – and what happens when memory becomes politics?A seminal work on memory and representation.
Martin Chambi and the Heirs of the Incas
How photography led to filmmaking. BBC Arena Documentary
In The Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin 
Landmark BBC biography shot on five continents
