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 (International Emmy, Royal Television Society, Edward Morrow Prize, Amnesty International Prize, etc.). 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.Photography in Peru was the subject of his first documentary film, 'Martin Chambi and the Heirs of the Incas' (1986), made for the BBC's Arena strand, which depicts the life, times, and contemporary relevance of that great Cusqueña photographer of the early 20th century. This was the first of half a dozen documentaries Yule made in Peru over the next two decades, and the start of an award-winning collaboration with the Producer Andy Harries.In 1990 Yule made "Trains That Passed In The Night", a lyrical documentary about another photographer, the American O. Winston Link, a subject whose troubled personal story he was to return to and re-assess fifteen years later in "The Photographer, His Wife, Her Lover" (2005).In 1991-92 Yule's Emmy Award-winning Channel 4 documentary "Damned In The USA", a film about censorship and the arts in the United States which features Rev. Donald Wildmon of the American Family Association, became embroiled in a landmark legal dispute. Though the film had already won the International Emmy, Wildmon and the AFA sued Yule, his co-producer Jonathan Stack, and Channel 4 for $8 million in an attempt to stop the distribution of the film, describing it as "blasphemous and obscene". Yule and his co-defendants fought the lawsuit in court in Mississippi and won the legal right to freely exhibit the film. Lou Reed re-wrote the lyrics to his classic Walk On The Wild Side in support of the case.The subject matter of Yule's films has included history, politics, religion, sport, and the arts. Along the way he has collaborated with several writers, including with Nicholas Shakespeare on films about Mario Vargas Llosa (1990) and Bruce Chatwin (1999); with Peter Oborne on exposés of Robert Mugabe (2003) and the conspiracy surrounding the cricketer Basil D'Oliveira (2004); as well as with Darcus Howe, Miranda Sawyer, Paul Morley an
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