Mr Philip Grover

Philip Grover is a writer, photographer and curator. He has held research fellowships at St Anne’s College, Oxford, and the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and is now based at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. He is an authority on the photographs of Wilfred Thesiger and co-curated the last two major exhibitions of his work, Wilfred Thesiger’s Iraq, 1949–1958: Photographs of Travel (Fox Talbot Museum) and Wilfred Thesiger in Africa: A Centenary Exhibition (Pitt Rivers Museum). He has published on a wide range of subjects, is a contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and has recently curated exhibitions of photographs by Carolyn Drake, Akio Kushida and Magnum’s Peter Marlow. He is the author of Oxford Daigaku shozo: Bakumatsu Meiji no Nihon (Yamakawa Shuppansha) and co-author of Embroidered Visions: Photographs by Sheila Paine (Pitt Rivers Museum); and co-editor of Wilfred Thesiger in Africa (HarperPress). More information about Philip Grover can be found here.