Peter Dench

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Peter Dench (23 April 1972[1]) is a photojournalist working primarily in advertising, editorial and portraiture photography.[1][2][3] His work has been published in a number of his own books, exhibited and won awards.

Biography

Dench was born and grew up in Weymouth, Dorset.[4] He graduated from the University of Derby with a degree in Photographic Studies in 1995 and has been working as a photojournalist since 1998.[4] He currently lives in Crouch End, London.

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);[4][5] which have included drinkUK, ethnicUK, rainUK, loveUK, royalUK, summerUK, fashionUK, and Carry on England.

Dench was a member of the photo agency Independent Photographer's Group (IPG) from 2000 until the company's closure in 2005.[6][7] In January 2012 he joined Reportage by Getty Images as one of their Represented Photographers.[8]

Around 2007 Dench spent 15 months photographing Football's Hidden Story in 20 countries on commission for FIFA, documenting "the way in which the sport thrives in the most improbable circumstances and in which enthusiasm for the game is being harnessed for the good of the community".[9]

A Day Off in the Lives of Europe is another of Dench's projects, in which he photographed people around Europe commemorating events of national significance.

Dench says of his work:

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.[4]

The Visa pour l'image photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France, has screened Dench's work five times (including Carry On England in 2009[10]) and given it one full exhibition.[5]

Dench was described in 2011 as a contributing editor of Hungry Eye magazine and creative director of the White Cloth Gallery in Leeds, which he founded with co-creative director Sharon Price.[11] He was a contributor to Professional Photographer magazine podcasts 1 to 13 in 2010/2011.[12] His monthly 'Dench Diary' appeared in Professional Photographer in 2010/2011[13] and in Hungry Eye from 2011 to the present.

Dench's advertising commissions have appeared on billboards and bus stop posters, in corporate brochures and in newspapers, including campaigns for Weetabix,[14] Barclaycard,[15] Barclays Wealth,[16] Suzuki, the British Heart Foundation, Danish Bacon and Maxim Magazine.

Dench has made formal portraits of Tom Jones, Vinnie Jones, Heston Blumenthal, Freddie Flintoff, Alain Ducasse, Jamie Oliver, Vijay Mallya, Zöe Lucker, Tamsin Greig, Ahmet Ertegun, Alicia Silverstone and Dermot Desmond.

The photographer Simon Roberts has said of Dench that he has an "inimitable style and dry humour ... His work is well worth a look, particularly his drinkUK project".[10]

In February 2012 Dench successfully used the Emphas.is visual journalism crowd funding website to raise funds for his first book England Uncensored, [17][18] published in May 2012.

For 6 months in 2013 Dench collaborated with Reportage by Getty Images on the Future of Britain project, commissioned by OMD UK. Dench photographed Britain to accompany OMD's research and statistics on the long-term economic downturn and changes to Britain's population and demographics, published on a blog throughout the period.[19]

In 2015 he founded The Curators with his co-founder Director Sharon Price, curating art exhibitions and events, touring photography exhibitions worldwide.

Publications

Publications by Dench

Publications with others

Awards

  • 2nd place, 'Advertising' category, Sony World Photography Awards[4]
  • Roadside Diners, July 1998 selected for National Portrait Gallery's John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award, London, 1999
  • George, Naturist, Palm Springs, October 2000 selected for National Portrait Gallery, John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award, London, 2001
  • 1 of 12 photographers selected to take part in World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass 2002[22]
  • 3rd prize for Drinking of England, World Press Photo Award, 'People in the News' category, 2002[11][23]
  • Marquesa deVarela, social fixer for Hello! magazine, April 2003 selected for National Portrait Gallery's Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize, London, 2003
  • Football's Hidden Story, selected for Photo District News (PDN) World in Focus Photography Contest[citation needed]
  • Football's Hidden Story, selected for Association of Photographers (AOP) Open award, 2008[citation needed]
  • Football's Hidden Story, selected for Photo District News (PDN) Photo Annual Award, 2008[citation needed]
  • 1st place in 'Sport' category for Football in Liberia, 3rd Annual Photography Masters Cup, International Color Awards, 2009[24]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

  • 2008: Football's Hidden Story, Liberia, The Foto8 Summershow[28][29]
  • 2010: 2 images from loveUK, The Foto8 Summershow[30]
  • 2011: 1 of 6 photographers contributed to Letters from Europe, Ernest Lluch Cultural Center, San Sebastián, Spain. Project co-financed by the European Commission's Daphne III programme.[31]
  • 2012: England Uncensored, White Cloth Gallery, Leeds, UK[32]

Exhibitions at festivals

  • 2010: Drinking of England was exhibited at GETXOPHOTO photography festival, Getxo, Bilbao, Spain[33]
  • 2011: England Uncensored – A Decade of Photographing the English
  • 2011: Visa pour l'image festival of photojournalism, Perpignan, France[1][5]
  • 2011: Periscopio festival of photojournalism, Vitoria, Spain[34]
  • 2011: Format International Photography Festival, Derby, UK (video installation)[35]
  • 2013: The British Abroad, The International Photoreporter Festival #2, Saint-Brieuc, France[36]

Short films

  • Cosplay (2011) with Ben Turner[37]
  • The War & Peace Show (2011) with Ben Turner[38]

Notes

  1. ↑ Its web page is www.caferoyalbooks.com/index.php/shop/suited-and-booted.
  2. ↑ Its web page is www.caferoyalbooks.com/index.php/shop/suited-and-booted.
  3. ↑ The publication date printed in the book is 2014 but the book was actually published in 2015.

References

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