Wednesday 24 October 2012

Peter Dench

Peter Dench (born 23 April 1972) is a photojournalist working primarily in advertising, editorial and portraiture photography. He has worked on assignment in over fifty countries but concentrates on England. He is also an aspiring videographer.

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

http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.co.uk/2008/11/peter-dench-egypts-zabaleen.html

http://www.lensculture.com/dench.html?thisPic=16

http://peterdench.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/negativity-of-winning.html

 



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