​Bruce Wenham

I'm Bruce Wenham, a British writer, photographer and artist, born in West Germany in 1969. I spent a wandering childhood living at British military bases in West Germany and Cyprus, as well as various places throughout England and Scotland. Perhaps as a result, I've always felt a little as though I'm from nowhere, without a true hometown or anywhere I can entirely call home. In 1988, I began studying Engineering Physics at Sheffield City Polytechnic, graduating with a 2:1 degree in 1992. As part of my studies, I completed an industrial placement at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford, working on charge neutralisation methods in scanning electron microscopy. I turned down an opportunity to pursue a PhD in solar cell technology. A family holiday to the Tatra Mountains in Poland in August 1990 unexpectedly changed the course of my life. My connection to Poland and Ukraine is also deeply personal, rooted in my Polish grandfather, who was badly wounded but survived the Ba...