Paul Yule

Who is Paul Yule?

Paul Harris Yule is a photographer and film maker.

Born in South Africa his family emigrated to England when he was 8 years old. After Aldenham School and PPE at Oxford University he became a photojournalist and film maker, founding Berwick Universal Pictures in London in 1980. He has made more than 30 films on six continents, often on controversial political and social themes, several of which have won major awards. Over the years Yule's film work has evolved from observational documentary and biography, through polemical "essays", to drama. He is also an accomplished teacher.

He found an early outlet through journalism for his photography while studying at Oxford University, including documenting the early work of contemporaries Rowan Atkinson, Richard Curtis and others of that generation. After leaving university he became a freelance photojournalist and, following work in Peru from 1979 onwards, a book of his photographs titled "The New Incas" was published by The New Pyramid Press in 1983.