Paul Reas (born 1955) is a British social documentary photographer and university lecturer.
He is best known for photographing consumerism in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s.
Reas has produced the books I Can Help (1988), Flogging a Dead Horse: Heritage Culture and Its Role in Post-industrial Britain (1993) and Fables of Faubus (2018).
He has had solo exhibitions at The Photographers' Gallery and London College of Communication, London; Cornerhouse, Manchester; and Impressions Gallery, Bradford.
His work is held in the collection of the British Council.