Richard Baker
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Richard Baker

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I'm known for almost four decades of commissioned editorial photography, personal reportage projects, collaborations with authors and for 'Red Arrows', a book about Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team. Following Red Arrows came four commissioned books: 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' (Hamish Hamilton); 'A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary' (Profile); 'Religion for Atheists' (Hamish Hamilton) all with Alain de Botton plus 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Profile). Most recently, my documentary and landscape interpretations offered a visual narrative for another collaboration with Polly Morland in 'A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story' (Picador) which was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize. 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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