Richard Cawood
Richard Cawood is a UK-born portrait photographer and educator living in Dubai. Cawood crafts high-contrast “emotive minimalism” portraits while also researching AI’s impact on image-making.
After earning BFA and MFA degrees at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art & Planning (DAAP), Cawood taught new-media production at Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music and later led faculty innovation initiatives at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. Since 2018 he has been a professor at Zayed University.
Cawood’s long-form projects examine perception and identity. His The Faces of the Unknown series (2019 – ongoing) explores the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and traditional photography. Its next chapter, The Faces of Mexico: A Study in Truth & Perception, will debut at Xposure 2026. This new body of work invites viewers to question what they accept as real.
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