{{Short description|Australian artist, writer and educator}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Anthony Luvera''' (born 1974)<ref name="studiointernational">{{cite web|first1=Nicola|last1=Homer|access-date=2021-06-20|title=Anthony Luvera – interview: 'Photography is a way of telling stories about the world'|url=https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/anthony-luvera-interview-photography-for-whom-telling-stories-about-the-world|website=Studio International}}</ref> is an Australian artist, writer and educator, living in London.<ref name="bjp-warner">{{cite web|access-date=2021-06-20|title=Anthony Luvera: "Homelessness is a structural problem"|url=https://www.1854.photography/2020/02/anthony-luvera-homelessness/|website=British Journal of Photography}}</ref> 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.
''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.<ref name="theguardian-armitstead"/>
==Career== Luvera is an Associate Professor of Photography in the Research Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities, at Coventry University.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-06-20|title=Anthony Luvera|url=https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/persons/anthony-luvera|website=Coventry University}}</ref> He is also Chair of the Education Committee at the Royal Photographic Society.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-07-28|title=RPS Postgraduate Bursary|url=https://rps.org/opportunities/rps-postgraduate-bursary/|website=rps.org}}</ref>
He edits ''Photography for Whom?'', a journal about socially engaged photography, which he set up in 2019.<ref name="studiointernational"/>
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.<ref name="bjp-warner"/><ref name="tfl">{{cite web|access-date=2021-06-20|title=Art on the Underground: Anthony Luvera: Stories from Gilded Pavements|url=https://art.tfl.gov.uk/projects/anthony-luvera/|website=Transport for London}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-06-20|title=The lockdown has transformed life for the homeless — but what happens now?|date=24 June 2020|url=https://www.ft.com/content/83578ab4-4aa8-4c7b-9867-31238dfb3f9a|website=Financial Times}}</ref> One project, ''Stories from Gilded Pavements'', was displayed in 12<!-- Primary TFL source says 12 where as secondary BBC source says 11 --> central London Underground stations in 2005, part of Art on the Underground.<ref name="tfl"/><ref>{{cite news|access-date=2021-06-22|title=Tube photos give homeless insight|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4204501.stm|date=25 January 2005|website=BBC News}}</ref> 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.<ref name="coventry2021">{{cite web|first1=Yimi|last1=Liu|access-date=2021-10-12|title=HOME - Arts & Homelessness Festival: Agency by Anthony Luvera - Coventry UK City of Culture 2021|url=https://coventry2021.co.uk/what-s-on/home-arts-homelessness-festival-agency-by-anthony-luvera/|website=coventry2021.co.uk}}</ref><ref name="theguardian-armitstead">{{cite web|access-date=2021-10-12|title=Send us to Coventry! How the Turner Prize and a touring bin put the city on the map|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/oct/11/coventry-uk-city-of-culture-2021|date=11 October 2021|website=The Guardian}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|first1=Liam|last1=Geraghty|access-date=2022-09-01|title=Homeless people get creative with self-portraits for new photo exhibition|url=https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/photographer-worked-in-homeless-charitys-kitchen-to-help-people-craft-their-own-portraits-for-new-exhibition/|date=19 August 2022|website=The Big Issue}}</ref>
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.<ref name="bjp-warner"/><ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-06-20|title=Homeless man dies in freezing alleyway behind Hilton hotel amid string of rough sleeper deaths across UK|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/homeless-man-dies-rough-sleeper-hilton-hotel-deaths-nottingham-a9210441.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/homeless-man-dies-rough-sleeper-hilton-hotel-deaths-nottingham-a9210441.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|date=20 November 2019|website=The Independent}}{{cbignore}}</ref> 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.<ref name="bbc-2019">{{cite news|access-date=2021-06-20|title=Artist's homeless questions unanswered by councils|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-50458291|date=3 December 2019|website=BBC News}}</ref><ref name="bigissue">{{cite web|access-date=2021-06-20|title=Exhibition shows a reaction to a homeless person's Frequently Asked Questions|url=https://www.bigissue.com/latest/exhibition-shows-a-reaction-to-a-homeless-persons-frequently-asked-questions/|date=14 November 2019|website=The Big Issue}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first1=Ellen|last1=Scott|access-date=2021-06-20|title=Photographer invites homeless people to co-create their own self portraits|url=https://metro.co.uk/2020/01/18/powerful-exhibition-draws-light-challenges-faced-homeless-people-uk-12080368/|date=18 January 2020|website=Metro}}</ref>
in 2013/14, with ''Not Going Shopping'', Luvera made collaborative self-portraits with LGBT+ people in Brighton and Hove.<ref>{{cite news|access-date=2021-06-21|title=Capturing the teenage years|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-38756550|newspaper=BBC News|date=30 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-06-21|title=Immersive interactions: Photography from the inside out|url=https://www.1854.photography/2019/08/immersive-interactions-photography-from-the-inside-out/|website=British Journal of Photography}}</ref> The portraits were exhibited as large-format posters in outdoor public spaces across the city and copies of a newspaper were distributed for free.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-06-21|title=Not Going Shopping, newspaper|url=http://www.luvera.com/not-going-shopping/|date=10 February 2014|website=Anthony Luvera}}</ref> 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.<ref name="belfastexposed">{{cite web|access-date=2021-06-21|title=Let Us Eat Cake|url=https://www.belfastexposed.org/exhibitions/let-us-eat-cake/|website=Belfast Exposed}}</ref><ref name="derryplayhouse">{{cite web|access-date=2021-06-21|title=The Playhouse|url=http://www.derryplayhouse.co.uk/events/details/tactics-for-time-travel-in-a-toilet/855|website=Derry Playhouse}}</ref>
==Publications==
===Publications by Luvera=== *''Residency''. Belfast: Belfast Exposed, 2011. By Luvera. With essays by Luvera, Anthony Downey, and Colin Graham. Edited by Karen Downey. {{ISBN|9780952421771}}. Edition of 1000 copies. *''Not Going Shopping''. Brighton: Photoworks, 2014. Newspaper format. Edition of 3000 copies. Photographs and text by Luvera, J Bayliss, Raphael Fox, Ten Harber, Sarah Magdalena Love, Kelly McBride, Harry Pygar, Luc Raesmith, Matt Robinson, Kate Turner, Edward Whelan, and Charlie Wood.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-06-21|title=Anthony Luvera: not going shopping|url=http://balticplus.uk/anthony-luvera-not-going-shopping-c26231/|website=Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art}}</ref><ref group="n">''Not Going Shopping'' can be viewed [http://photoworks.org.uk/not-going-shopping-free-newspaper/ here] within the Photoworks site.</ref> *''Let Us Eat Cake''. Belfast: Belfast Exposed, 2017. By Luvera, Paul Campbell, Sarah Cromie, Raymond Dunn, Chris Finlay, Rachael Kathleen, Natalie McFall, and Ciaran Rafferty. {{ISBN|978-0956176639}}. With an essay by Edwin Coomasaru, "Queer life and kindship : Anthony Luvera's Let us eat cake (2017)". *''Agency''. Coventry: Coventry UK City of Culture, 2021. Newspaper format. Photographs and text by Luvera, Amy Howard, Arshak Lanin, Bengy S, Bernie Howard, Cecelia Stower, Dualeh Alu Dualeh, Jason Reid, John Kiely, Ken Hornblow, Martin, Mick Bickley, Robyn Rainbow, Sim Ford, Sue Sadler and Tracy Villiers. Edition of 3000 copies.
===Books edited by Luvera=== *''Queer in Brighton''. Brighton: New Writing South, 2014. Edited by Luvera and Maria Jastrzębska. Includes ''Not Going Shopping''. {{ISBN|9-780-992-826-000}}.
===Journals edited by Luvera=== *''Photography for Whom?''. Issue 1, 2019. *''Photography for Whom?''. Issue 2, 2021.
===Publications with contributions by Luvera=== *''Photography and Collaboration: From Conceptual Art to Crowdsourcing''. Bloomsbury; Routledge, 2017. By Daniel Palmer. Hardback, {{ISBN|9781474233460}}. Paperback, {{ISBN|9781350008311}}.
==Exhibitions== *''Stories from Gilded Pavements'', at 12 London Underground stations, London, 2005. Part of Art on the Underground.<ref name="tfl"/><ref>{{cite news|access-date=2021-06-20|title=Stories from Gilded Pavements|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/4205359.stm|date=25 January 2005|website=BBC News}}</ref> *''Frequently Asked Questions'', with Gerald Mclaverty, Brighton Photo Fringe, 2014; Tate Liverpool, 2018; Peoples Republic of Stokes Croft, Bristol, 2019; The Gallery at Foyles, London, 2020<ref name="bbc-2019"/><ref name="bigissue"/><ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-06-20|title=Frequently Asked Questions by Anthony Luvera and Gerald Mclaverty – Workshop at Tate Liverpool|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/workshop/state-nation/frequently-asked-questions-anthony-luvera-and-gerald|website=Tate}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first1=Jessica|last1=Turtle|access-date=2021-06-21|title=Frequently Asked Questions by Anthony Luvera & Gerald McLaverty|url=https://museumofhomelessness.org/2019/11/05/frequently-asked-questions-by-anthony-luvera-gerald-mclaverty/|website=Museum of Homelessness}}</ref> *''Let Us Eat Cake'', Belfast Exposed, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2017;<ref name="belfastexposed"/> Derry Playhouse, Derry, Northern Ireland, 2018<ref name="derryplayhouse"/> *''Agency'', Warwick Row, Coventry, 2021. Part of ''Home: Arts & Homelessness Festival'' and Coventry UK City of Culture 2021.<ref name="theguardian-armitstead"/><ref name="coventry2021"/>
==Collections== *London Transport Museum, London: 8 posters (as of June 2021)<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-06-20|title=Refine your search|url=https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/the-collection?f%5B0%5D=makers%3AAnthony%20Luvera|website=London Transport Museum}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{Official website|www.luvera.com}}
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