John Goto- artist research

john Goto is a british artist best known for his photo digital artworks. He has worked with historical, social and political subjects throughout his career.
In the late 1960s John studied fine art at  st.martins school of art, in London.

In the 1980s he began work which combined painting and drawings with photography, laying the groundwork for his later practice with computers. He originally studied painting at St. Martins in the late 60s. He was influenced by cinema, literature and culture he moved into photography and began exhibiting with a retrospective at the Photographers Gallery in 1981. In the late eighties he began a cycle of exhibitions concerning recent history with moving Terezin series which concerns a Bauhaus trained artist fellow at Girton college. He exhibited widely in Britain and Europe and presently lectures on the photography course at the University of Derby.