Richard Mulhearn

Richard Mulhearn graduated from Manchester School of Art in 1995, his early career as a freelance photographer was predominantly in the music industry, on sleeve artwork and promo images for publication, and then later in film production as part of a design group working on title sequences and photographic stills work. He has recently been appointed Course leader for BA (Hons) Photography at the University of Huddersfield. His current research activity concentrates on making new photographic work as part of a practice based PhD at University of Huddersfield.
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The practice of everyday life promotes consensus, routinely establishing and maintaining conventions of subjectivity. It is proposed that periodically the sovereign self shifts outside this convention, which can be seen when gesture becomes unreadable, while this gesture can be photographed the image as a consequence the holds a deliberate ambiguity that can be used to celebrate this unknowable part of human behaviour.