John Stezaker

John Stezaker (b. 1949, Worcester, British) lives and works in London, UK. He studied at the Slade School of Art and currently teaches Critical and Historical Studies at the Royal College of Art in London. He is one of the leading artists in contemporary photographic collage and appropriation. Employing vintage photographs, old Hollywood film stills, travel postcards and other printed matter, Stezaker creates seductive and fascinating small-format collages that bear qualities of Surrealism, Dada, and found art. Indeed, in referring to the large compendium of images he has collected, Stezaker asserts that the images “find him,” not the other way around. With surgical-like precision, Stezaker excises, overlays and conjoins distinct images to create new personalities, landscapes and scenes. In September 2012, he was awarded the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.