Graham Diprose

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{{Short description|British photographer and author}}

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| caption = Diprose speaking at the EVA London 2019 Conference

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| birth_place = United Kingdom

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| occupation = Photographer; author; lecturer at the London College of Communication

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| known_for = Landscape photography, especially the River Thames

| notable_works = The River Thames Revisited (2007); Photography: The New Basics (2012)

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Grapham Diprose is a British photographer and author.

During the 1970s and 1980s, Diprose worked as a freelance advertising photographer in central London, while teaching studio photography part-time.{{cite web| url=https://www.museumsandtheweb.com/user/graham_diprose.html | title=Graham Diprose | publisher=Archives & Museum Informatics | work=Museums and the Web | accessdate=23 October 2020 }} In the 1980s and 1990s, he was a full-time lecturer at the London College of Communication,{{cite web| url=https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/london-college-of-communication/stories/creative-careers-graham-diprose | title=Graham Diprose | first=Chloe | last=Murphy | publisher=University of the Arts London | work=London College of Communication | location=UK | date=10 February 2021 | accessdate=19 April 2022 }} becoming Lead Tutor in Photography within the Faculty of Design. Later, he was Lead Tutor at the Speos Institute in London. He has an interest in both traditional photography and digital photography.

Diprose has been involved with research concerning the history of the River Thames, including following the photography of the early photographer Henry Taunt (1842–1922). He has also produced a photography textbook for Thames & Hudson,{{cite web| url=https://thamesandhudson.com/authors/graham-diprose-36297 | title=Graham Diprose | publisher=Thames & Hudson | accessdate=23 October 2020 }} published in the United Kingdom, United States, and translated into Mandarin Chinese. In 2018, he aided the long-term preservation of photographs by Michael George for the University College, Oxford archive, with the college's archivist Robin Darwall-Smith.{{cite journal| first1=Graham |last1=Diprose | first2=Michael | last2=George | first3=Robin | last3=Darwall-Smith | author3-link=Robin Darwall-Smith | title=An Alternative Method of Very Long-term Conservation of Digital Images and their Historical Context for The Archive, University College, Oxford | journal=EVA London 2018: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts | publisher=BCS | series=Electronic Workshops in Computing | date=2018 | doi=10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.10 | pages=48–55 | doi-access=free }}

Diprose has been on the Organising Committee for the EVA London Conference on Electronic Visualisation and the Arts since 2015, latterly as the main conference chair.{{cite web| url=http://www.eva-london.org/about/organising-committee/ | title=Organising Committee | publisher=EVA London Conference | accessdate=23 October 2020 }} He also liaises with the Art in Flux group of London-based digital artists.