Dench is best known for his decade of work documenting England. He breaks the subject down into manageable chunks with a specific theme (thereby also making them easier to fund); which have included drinkUK, ethnicUK, rainUK, loveUK, royalUK, summerUK, fashionUK, and Carry on England.
‘I’m always looking
for humour in my pictures. Charlie Chaplin is a big influence and I often try
to address serious subjects in a humorous way when appropriate. My aim is to
make people laugh, make people think. Looking through the books of Elliott Erwitt
and Martin Parr is the reason I got into photography. If you can travel the
world making people laugh and making them think, then to me that’s a fine way
to live.’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Dench
Peter Dench likes to have fun, but doesn’t like to
waste time. He enjoys getting out and shooting, but dislikes simply
wandering around without purpose. He prefers instead to photograph
events and places that, by their very nature, will guarantee colourful
and arresting images. He’s not an obsessive photographer who always has a
camera slung around his neck. In fact, he won’t get his camera out of
its bag for weeks unless he’s being paid and before setting out he has to
have a strong sense of what he’s trying to achieve.
'I think there are two ways to become a professional photographer. Either
you assist and then try to make it on your own or you try to make it on
your own from the beginning, and that was the route I chose to take,
but there’s no right or wrong way. It was two years of persistence and
knocking on doors, which I still have to do.'
By being selective, Peter has succeeded in creating strong images that
have elements familiar to everyone.By being unobtrusive he is welcomed
into disparate worlds and invited to record those elements in an
engaging, humorous and sympathetic way. What more could a street
photographer want?
http://www.photographymonthly.com/Magazine/Photo-Zone-2010/Street-Photography-Peter-Dench
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