Paul Roundhill - photography

b.1955
1973 1977 studied art at Epsom School of Art and Brighton in 1976 began to document the new wave and punk music scene with the sense that by documenting and recording the performance I would somehow "affirm"  the defiant and fleeting event. It could then exist in the future. There was something magnificently futile about the early punk gigs as though an insect was attacking an opponent as big as a mountain and in that weedy determined insignificance was an irrestistable attraction impossible to ignore. I was conscious though that all my attention would have to be in those conditions it was hard to be sure of being in focus because most cameras had through the lense split-focus and I would effectively miss the gig by being engrossed on focusing and framing my shots I would gain future photos at the cost of experiencing the gig, thats how it was and getting all of the band in shot at the same time without any heads being cut off again could  be impossibly difficult as many of my results will prove. Without a wide angle lense or enough distance between us I would often have no option but to line up all the musicians from a place right in front of the stage amongst a melee of surging bodies only the to be blocked by a microphone obscuring the singers face. I could retreat to the back of the hall and end up with all the band in shot although in miniature or attempt an impossible angle at the side of the stage waiting for onee or more members to turn around and face my direction. A solo shot of the frontman could not be an option in my view - I wnted an action photo of all of them and it is for this reason that the best pictures I have were of  a single figure such as Iggy or Frank Zappa .
1980 Vintage 1960 fashion COD Kensington Market
1982 Hi Tak, Carnaby street
1989-1995 Ultra Dig at the Trocadero Picadilly Circus
The Pavilion Piccadilly Circus
1990 The Word Now - poetry nights at the Troy Club in Hanway Street
1991 1996 poetry and spoken Word Events for the Soho Jazz Festival
1994 12 bimonthly events at the Marquee Cafe Soho "With Intent" 120 performance artists and poets recorded on hi8 a/v tape.
1991 Panoramic photos of India by Quentin Jacobsen at Green st Mayfair
Multi media
1994 - 2000 Document Asian drug dealing gangs in Whitechapel for  Evening Standard Newspaper
Document Asian drug dealing gangs in Whitechapel forES Magazine
GQ Magazine feature on Whitechapel prostitution
Publish writing by prostitutes in the Idler
ITN The London Program "Bangla Voices" with Director Clive Simpson about Bangla Deshi drug dealing
For Peter Doherty
Produce and Commission Douglas Hart to direct video for "This is for Lovers"
Commission film with Director Roger Pomphrey "who the fuck is Peter Doherty"
Commission Ashtar Alkaison to shoot and produce Arena - Doherty documentary for bbc2
Wrote song for 2nd Libertines Album "The Saga"
Edit Prison Diaries
Publish prose and poetry in literary fanzine "Full Moon Empty Sports Bag"
2004 2006 Commissioning Editor Full Moon Empty Sportsbag
2012-2014 Liase with editor Nina Antonia on "From Albion to Shangri La"
Bloodworks at the Bankrobber Gallery - first exhibition of bloodpaintings
Manage press for BalaChadha and bloodpainting project
2006- 2008 youTube channel for Peter Doherty
2012 Flags of the Old Regime Peter Doherty exhibition of paintings at the Djamm gallery, Paris
2013 Flags of the Old Regime Peter Doherty exhibition of paintings at the Rural, Geneva
2014 Flags of The Old Regime, Peter Doherty exhibition of paintings in Barcelona

2006 Art is a Drag at the Dragon Bar - own photographs - one man show
2014 September Paul Ro x 5 at Indo, Whitechapel own photographs - one man show
2014/15 The Rhythm Factory, Whitechapel own photographs - one man show

Current projects - pre internet Performance Art events are being digitised and archived in conjunction with the Tate Modern for an exhibition to tour the UK in 2018 - funded by the Arts Council
Collating written accounts  of my own writings for autobiography
Literary agent to A.T.Wells (Deceased) Australian writer and Musician - editing life-story with a view to a film script. Compiling material for his archive and to preserve at an Australian University
Researching biography and raising profile of UK born New York based Leicester born Pop Artist and Bauhaus Colour Theorist, printmaker Peter Gee
Developing North Cyprus Arts Project, crowd funding purchase and refurbishing hotel, cinema and artists colony
Exhibition and book about the end of working class East End using photographs of White prostitutes