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Sean O'Hagan is a writer for The Guardian and The Observer, specialising in photography.
O'Hagan was brought up in Armagh during "the troubles", and has written about the experience. As an undergraduate, he studied English in London.
O'Hagan started as a writer for NME, The Face and Arena, and during this period became interested in photography. As of 2013, he is one of six regular "Art and design" critics for The Guardian website, and the only photography critic among the six.
On 18 March 2003 O'Hagan received the 2002 British Press Award for Interviewer of the Year.
O'Hagan is a nominator for the Prix Pictet Award in photography and sustainability.
In 2011 O'Hagan was the sole recipient of the J Dudley Johnston Award from the Royal Photographic Society "for major achievement in the field of photographic criticism".