About
“History teaches us that we do not learn from history” - Georg Hegel
Giles Duley is an English documentary and portrait photographer, writer, chef, presenter, and CEO and founder of the international NGO Legacy of War Foundation. Duley’s work has been exhibited internationally and often explores themes of resilience, humanity, and the legacy of conflict.
Following on from the success of his debut art show Where Do We Go From Here? exhibited during London Frieze in October 2025, Duley will present his new exhibition Distortion/Memory/Resilience/ at the prestigious Sutton Tower in New York in May 2026.
A mixed media approach pulls together memory, history and fate. Images as artefacts, layered with the past, connecting the dots. Within this series everything is a story, and every story is connected. Even the tools and papers used to create the works have histories. The past is interwoven with our lives, questioning how we create change.
Angelina Jolie. April 2026: “Wars and weapons of war have taken his limbs, challenged his humanity and could have broken his spirit. Thirty-seven surgeries and years on frontlines and you simply cannot break this man’s desire to fight for his fellow man. He fights for us all.
He’s a man I have learned so much from, a deep thoughtful soul who has restored my faith more than once, with his art he helps to reconnect us to each other. Above all, though he is an immensely talented creative.”
Giles Duley is a photographer, writer, chef and presenter, born in 1971 in London. His award-winning work focuses on the long-term humanitarian impact of conflict and has been exhibited globally.
To find our more about Duley’s work, visit www.gilesduley.com.
Photo by Nick Suchak