Richard is a fine art social documentary and portrait photographer based in London, UK.
Many of his images have been acquired for the National Portrait Gallery permanent collection, his portrait of film director David Lynch was acquired by the Smithsonian, USA and David Cronenberg acquired by the National Canadian Library and Archives.
‘BIRTH – A Portrait of Grayson Perry’ won first prize at the Sony World Photography Awards 2019 and his series of portraits exploring the complex mental health of women prisoners and the series exploring a disappearing community in South London, Behind The Brutal Facade, 2020 were both shortlisted subsequently for the same awards.
The portrait of an autistic boy in a flower garden from the series Boys in a City Park, Ukraine, 2011 won the Arte Laguna Prize 2013
The portrait of Danel, 9 from series ‘Children of Grenfell’ was selected as the People’s Choice at the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize 2018.
His images have been selected 13 times for the National Portrait Gallery, London portrait prize exhibition.
