Richard Baker
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Richard Baker

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I'm known for four decades of commissioned editorial photography, personal reportage projects and collaborations with authors. Richard Baker is a British documentary photographer who has worked since the mid-80s as a visual reporter for international magazines, journals and newspapers while also known for book collaborations, most recently for his black and white photography in Polly Morland’s ‘A Fortunate Woman’, (Picador, 2023) which was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize; for his aerobatic team book, ‘Red Arrows’ (Dalton Watson, 2005) and with Alain de Botton for, ‘The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work’ (Hamish Hamilton, 2009) and ‘A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary’, (Profile, 2009). Early years were spent working in aviation before I studied Documentary Photography at Newport under Magnum's David Hurn, then freelanced for the Observer newspaper before being represented by the Katz/IPG agency. My work was subesequently published as photo-essays in the world's image-led news magazines and corporate literature. Nowadays I work independently, pursuing personal projects that tell tales on topical or conceptual themes with an affection for dystopia, disorder and disruption. As well as more recent digital work, my extensive archive of scanned film images from the mid-80s to early 2000s are online at Photoshelter, with Getty Images (via 'In Pictures') and Alamy.
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