Richard Mulhearn

Dr Richard Mulhearn is a photographer and educator based in West Yorkshire, UK. His early career as a freelance photographer was predominantly in the music industry, producing photographs for sleeve artwork and promotional images for publication.

From 2015 to 2022, Richard led the BA (Hons) Photography course at the University of Huddersfield. He is now the Subject Area Lead for Visual Arts, responsible for Photography, Fine Art, Illustration and Filmmaking. In 2012, Richard completed an MA in Photography at the London College of Communication, and in 2024 completed a practice-based PhD. Everything Is Suspended in Movement (2024) is a projected installation, the accompanying thesis articulates how the practice destabilises the experience of viewing the photographic image in sequence.

Research Expertise and Interests:

Richard’s main research focus is centred on artistic practice; he is interested in disrupting received responses to resolve the photographs’ relationship to the event in the world in the context of the photographic paradox. He is particularly fascinated by how the photograph is experienced specifically in sequential forms and in the relationship between the experience of looking at the photograph and the space of experience as a form of embodiment and their potential in relation to resonant spaces and places.

• Photographic Paradox,
• The ephemeral interlude,
• ordinary affect, becoming, interpretative autoethnography, and ways of seeing.
• Narrative and sequence 
• Curatorial Strategies
• the Photobook - publishing photography
• Collaborative approaches to making and disseminating photographic work