Artist Talks

Dean Chalkley

These portraits are incredibly striking and I find them to be very personal, even though the are posed. They seem to capture the person's personality which I really like. The setup and the clothing is also displaying this. I find his black and white photographs are the most interesting as I love the tonal ranges, creating depth and light areas in the subject matters skin tone.

Dean Chalkley is a Photographer and Film Maker based in London. He grew up in the Thames estuary town of Southend-on-Sea in Essex  UK. After training to be a Tailor he put the scissors aside in favour of the Camera and studied at Blackpool and the Fylde College, completing his Photography degree. Whilst at college he began shooting for Dazed and Confused magazine (1998). Since then Dean has continued to depict his love for Culture, and Music especially working with many different publications, record companies and fashion brands. He has undertaken high profile campaigns for the likes of Rayban, Levis and New Balance.
His clients include Adidas, Tatler, New Balance, Fred Perry, Hush Puppies, Ray-Ban, Levis, Everything Everywhere, Fiction Records, Island Records, XL Recordings, Diageo, NME, Figtree, Sony BMG, Universal Music, EMI, BBC, O2, Santander, Ben Sherman, Kickers, Pentland, VCCP, WCRS, Exposure, Love, M&C Saatchi, The Observer, The Sunday Times, IDEO, and many more.

Stuart Freedman

Images taken from www.stuartfreedman.com

I personally love these works the most out of the artist talks as they really capture my imagination and provides very captivating, rich images of our world. I find them incredibly inspiring and suggest you take a look at his website.

Stuart Freedman was born in London and has been a photographer since 1991. His work has been published in, amongst others, Life, Geo, Time, Der Spiegel, Newsweek, The Sunday Times Magazine and Paris Match covering stories from Albania to Afghanistan and from former Yugoslavia to Haiti.

His work has been recognised in many awards, from amongst others, Amnesty International (twice), Pictures of the Year, The World Sports Photo Award, The Royal Photographic Society and UNICEF. In 1998 he was selected for the World Press Masterclass and the following year for the Agfa Young Photojournalist of the Year.