Paul Biddle is an English fine art photographer, who specialises in creating carefully studied surreal artworks using real objects and studio lighting for artistic effects. He has exhibited widely both in Britain and around the world. He has won at least 15 international photography prizes.
Biddle describes his inspirations and influences as ranging "from Renaissance art to Dadaism and Surrealism, from Picasso to the flotsam and jetsam that I pick up on my walks by the sea near my home".Paul Biddle's website, Info page, downloaded 19 September 2011,
Awards The Association of Photographers: 1 Gold, 2 Merits.Exhibition Catalogue, The Association of Photographers Sixth Awards. Pages 106,108,134,135. . The Royal Photographic Society: 2 Golds. Kodak Triple Exposure: Winner. 3D Illustrators (USA): I Gold, 6 Bronzes. Hasselblad Austrian Super Circuit: 1996 Overall Winner (27,000 entries - 101 countries).Trierenberg Super Circuit (Photographic Contest), Austria. http://www.supercircuit.at/halloffame.cfm Polaroid European Final Awards.
Exhibitions
UK The Association of Photographers Tapestry The Image Bank (Getty Images) Euro RSCG Lowe Lintas The Royal Photographic SocietyPaul Biddle, About My Work. The Photographic journal: official organ of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain and the Photographic Alliance, Volume 132. (1992) Page 498. The Royal Photographic Society's 136th Annual International Print Exhibition. "judged by Paul Biddle (a previous Gold Medal winner)"
Worldwide New York City Fort LauderdaleVisual Arts & Galleries. "Altered States". James Schot Gallery and Studio. March 13-April 30, 2009. Tokyo Cologne Vienna Linz Arles Amsterdam The Leonardo da Vinci Museum (Milan)Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milan, Italy. http://www.museoscienza.org/ Musée de la Civilisation (Quebec)
Permanent Collections The Royal Photographic Society (London)
References British Journal of Photography Annual 1990.
External links Luminous-Lint (art gallery), The Strange Worlds of Paul Biddle (August 2011) Luminous Lint Paul Biddle, photographer: Blog Blogspot Zone Zero (fine art website), Paul Biddle Zone Zero Feature Shoot. Paul Biddle's surreal still life photography. By Dawn Shuck. 21 September 2001. Feature Shoot YouTube collage of Paul Biddle's work, set to music YouTube