Anthony Luvera

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Anthony Luvera (born 1974) [1] is an Australian artist, writer and educator, living in London. [2] He is a socially engaged artist who works with photography on collaborative projects, which have included working with those who have experienced homelessness and LGBT+ people. Luvera is an Associate Professor of Photography at Coventry University.

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Stories from Gilded Pavements was shown in 12 central London Underground stations and is held in the collection of London Transport Museum. Frequently Asked Questions (with Gerald Mclaverty) was shown at Tate Liverpool. Agency, a collaborative project with people experiencing homelessness, was part of Coventry UK City of Culture 2021. [3]

Career

Luvera is an Associate Professor of Photography in the Research Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities, at Coventry University. [4] He is also Chair of the Education Committee at the Royal Photographic Society. [5]

He edits Photography for Whom?, a journal about socially engaged photography, which he set up in 2019. [1]

Luvera has worked extensively with people who have experienced homelessness. Many of these projects use his "assisted self-portrait" methodology, where the subject of the photograph, assisted by Luvera, makes and selects the pictures. [2] [6] [7] One project, Stories from Gilded Pavements, was displayed in 12 central London Underground stations in 2005, part of Art on the Underground. [6] [8] In another, Agency, a commission for Coventry UK City of Culture 2021, participants documented their experiences and places in the city of significance to them, and created assisted self-portraits. The photographs were shown along Warwick Row in Coventry and in a free newspaper distributed across the city. [9] [3] In a project called Construct, Luvera worked in the kitchens for a year at a Birmingham homelessness charity, through which he met people that made assisted self-portraits. [10]

In another ongoing project on homelessness, Luvera and Gerald Mclaverty have conducted iterations of their Frequently Asked Questions. This project involves sending basic questions to councils across the UK, asking how to access systems of care for people experiencing homelessness. [2] [11] Many councils fail to respond, treat the questions as freedom of information requests, or reply with automated lists of links. The resulting exhibitions collate information about the range of responses from councils. [12] [13] [14]

in 2013/14, with Not Going Shopping, Luvera made collaborative self-portraits with LGBT+ people in Brighton and Hove. [15] [16] The portraits were exhibited as large-format posters in outdoor public spaces across the city and copies of a newspaper were distributed for free. [17] In 2017 in Northern Ireland, for 'LGBTQ Visions of Peace in a Society Emerging from Conflict', Luvera conducted a similar project with 7 participants: Let Us Eat Cake. This project was published as a book and exhibited in galleries. [18] [19]

Publications

Publications by Luvera

Books edited by Luvera

Journals edited by Luvera

Publications with contributions by Luvera

Exhibitions

Collections

Notes

  1. ↑ Not Going Shopping can be viewed here within the Photoworks site.

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  2. 1 2 3 "Anthony Luvera: "Homelessness is a structural problem"". British Journal of Photography . Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 "Send us to Coventry! How the Turner Prize and a touring bin put the city on the map". The Guardian. 11 October 2021. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  4. ↑ "Anthony Luvera". Coventry University. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  5. ↑ "RPS Postgraduate Bursary". rps.org. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  6. 1 2 3 "Art on the Underground: Anthony Luvera: Stories from Gilded Pavements". Transport for London. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  7. ↑ "The lockdown has transformed life for the homeless — but what happens now?". Financial Times. 24 June 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  8. ↑ "Tube photos give homeless insight". BBC News. 25 January 2005. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  9. 1 2 Liu, Yimi. "HOME - Arts & Homelessness Festival: Agency by Anthony Luvera - Coventry UK City of Culture 2021". coventry2021.co.uk. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  10. ↑ Geraghty, Liam (19 August 2022). "Homeless people get creative with self-portraits for new photo exhibition". The Big Issue. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
  11. ↑ "Homeless man dies in freezing alleyway behind Hilton hotel amid string of rough sleeper deaths across UK" . The Independent. 20 November 2019. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  12. 1 2 "Artist's homeless questions unanswered by councils". BBC News. 3 December 2019. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  13. 1 2 "Exhibition shows a reaction to a homeless person's Frequently Asked Questions". The Big Issue. 14 November 2019. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  14. ↑ Scott, Ellen (18 January 2020). "Photographer invites homeless people to co-create their own self portraits". Metro. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  15. ↑ "Capturing the teenage years". BBC News. 30 January 2017. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  16. ↑ "Immersive interactions: Photography from the inside out". British Journal of Photography . Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  17. ↑ "Not Going Shopping, newspaper". Anthony Luvera. 10 February 2014. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
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  19. 1 2 "The Playhouse". Derry Playhouse. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
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