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Vanda Playford
Medical Doctor and Documentary Artist
Vanda Playford was born in 1957 in Leeds. She first studied medicine and worked as a general practitioner in inner-city London for over twenty years. Playford started working as an artist in photography in 1995 having completed an MA in Photographic Studies at Derby University. More recently she has turned to video.
Previous photographic practice centred around a critique of the nuclear family, including her project The Model Family (1995) and The Presence of the Past. Other photographic work sought to develop a practice of portraiture in relation to performance as seen in her series Pink Personals (1999). Her work has been shown in the UK, Europe and the US, and is in number of private collections.
In more recent work, Playford takes live recordings of consultations between herself and volunteer patients and re-works them into narratives for actors to use in filmed re-enactments. The process takes the narratives away from a biomedical context into a performative arena and opens up a context for thinking of the body both in relation to the social, and in relation to storytelling. Playford hopes that she will be able to present the PhD research to other GPs when completed. She explains that, "while any such end use was not the motivation for my initial investigation, having found that the experience was beneficial to my practice as a doctor, I feel that I should share this".
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