Vanda Playford: Introduction -
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Published on: 9/1/2006
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Vanda Playford
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Vanda Playford was born in 1957 in Leeds.
She first studied medicine and worked as a general practitioner in inner-city London for over twenty years.
Playford started working as an artist in photography in 1995 having completed an MA in Photographic Studies at Derby University.
More recently she has turned to video.
Previous photographic practice centred around a critique of the nuclear family, including her project The Model Family (1995) and The Presence of the Past.
Other photographic work sought to develop a practice of portraiture in relation to performance as seen in her series Pink Personals (1999).
Her work has been shown in the UK, Europe and the US, and is in number of private collections.
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Vanda Playford, 'Expedient evacuation'.