John Paul Evans

John Paul Evans is a Welsh-born photographic artist and academic who now lives in Devon, England. His work explores the polemics of gender representation in photography.

He has received various international awards including the 2016 Hasselblad Masters Award. He was winner of the Dodho Magazine B&W Award 2017, KL Photo awards 2017, Bokeh Bokeh portfolio awards 2017 & 2018, Pride Photo Awards 2014.

Solo exhibitions include What is lost…what has been at Ffotogallery Wales 2022, Mission Gallery Swansea 2022 and the Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock, UK, 2019. His photographic series ‘till death us do part’ was exhibited at the Athens Photo Festival 2019. The series was also shown at Edifício do Castelo Museum, Braga, Portugal and Outono Fotográfico festival in Ourense, Galizia, Spain in 2017. Recent projects under the title of ‘Matrimonial Ties’ were exhibited at the Soho Photo Gallery in New York in June 2018.

Selected group shows include “Home Sweet Home” rencontres de la photographie Arles and Institute for Photography Lille, France 2019, Photography After Stonewall - Soho Photo Gallery, New York 2019, 'Pride Photo Awards' at FOAM Amsterdam 2015,

His work is represented in various international collections including the National Museum of Wales, Fox Talbot Museum UK, Institute for Photography Lille, The Schwules Museum Berlin, IHLIA Foundation Amsterdam.

Selected publications include: Locating the self, welcoming the other – Valérie Morrison-Peter Lang publishing, ‘Home Sweet Home’ Editions Textuel Paris, ‘Photography after Stonewall’ Soho Photo Gallery, New York, Queer; visual arts in Europe Waanderskunst, Hasselblad Masters vol 5 inspire’ TeNeues

His work has been featured in various international publications including The British Journal of Photography, Exit magazine, Fotograf, The Financial Times Magazine, El País Magazine, Harper’s Magazine New York.