Background
Philip Grenfell Stokes was born on July 8, 1932, in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, United Kingdom.
Philip Grenfell Stokes was born on July 8, 1932, in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, United Kingdom.
Philip Stokes received a Bachelor of Education in Fine Arts and Philosophy and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Exeter.
Philip Stokes was lecturing in photography at Trent Polytechnic in Nottingham, England (since 1978), and worked from 1968 to 1970 as a self-employed photographer in Plymouth, England.
His photographic work concentrates on portraiture and images of places and objects, while his academic research centers on "photographic communication as language and in relation to verbal language."