Richard Dickson is a photographer based in England. He has been taking photographs since childhood keenly observing and recording the life and situations around him. Much of his photography had been based on his travels then latterly working on particular projects and themes.
He is interested in how we relate to the world, adapt to it, change it, ignore it. One of the themes he finds himself attracted to is that of our yearning to find individual, private space away from our crowded environment, highlighting our essential, solitary selves. He perceives beauty in everyday scenes, seeking patterns, textures, different viewpoints, scale.
When we are happy within ourselves then we can truly see and appreciate our surroundings, notice the beauty and detail in the ordinary, the changing seasons, how we are at one with that, our place in the world. Our need to record that, through any artistic medium, makes a mark of permanence that acknowledges the impermanent state of everything including ourselves.
Following a trip to New York, he realised similarities between the images there and ones of London, already taken or imagined. He put together a body of work, Continuous Cities LON-NYC, pairing these similar but different scenes, highlighting a one-world view. The title is inspired by Italo Calvino’s book ‘Invisible Cities’. He has taken this further with other subjects exploring the idea of difference but sameness.
Travelling in the Southwest USA landscape and discovering the poetical descriptions in the works of the author Willa Cather, he brought together his images and her words in a collection and spent a period as Artist in Residence at the Willa Cather Foundation in 2019 ending in an exhibition of large format, direct printed, photographic works titled ‘Beauty in the Ordinary’.
He works with traditional materials and processes and explores the use of any photographic material often in extended or unconventional ways, which can bring a different interpretation or energy to a scene.
He has had multiple works exhibited in juried open calls in the United States with: Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati; Midwest Center, Wichita; Praxis, Minneapolis: New York Center for Photographic Arts.
UK & Europe: The London Group Open in 2017; several Photomonth East, London; photo Zurich 19 – in Director’s Choice series, 2019; ING Discerning Eye, 2022 – https://aestheticamagazine.com/varied-curation/ ; D31 Art Gallery 2023.
Prizes: Midwest Juried 2022 – Documentary Award; First in NYC4PA - Street, 2020; Hon. Mention Midwest Juried, 2020: Highly commended London Photo Festival 2017.
Publications: selected in Manifest Gallery International Photography Annual, INPHA 8, 2021. http://www.manifestgallery.org/inpha/inpha8/
Solo Exhibition: Willa Cather Foundation, Artist in Residence, 2019
Exhibitions and Open Call Selections:
2025 – Loosen Art, Rome – Scenes from Real Life
2024 – Midwest – Portfolio Platform
2023 – Midwest – Likeness
2023/25 – Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati – Magnitude Seven
2023 – D31 Art Gallery – Spring, the Magic of Transformation; Street
2022 – ING Discerning Eye – four selections
2022 – Midwest – Juried – two categories; Greyscale; Ten Ten. Praxis Gallery – Abandoned
2021 – Praxis Gallery – Portraiture; Shape
2021 – Midwest Center – Wide Open
2020 – NYC4PA Street – First Place awarded
2020 – Manifest Gallery – Two selections in Let There Be exhibition – http://www.manifestgallery.org/about/schedule17.html
2020 – Finalist for INHPA 8, International Photography Annual published by Manifest Gallery
2020 – Midwest Center for Photography – Suburban Architecture; Walkabout; Ten Ten
2020 – Midwest Center – Juried – 3 categories , one Hon. Mention.
2019 – Midwest Center – Ten Ten – 3 selected.
2019 – Willa Cather Foundation – Artist in Residence / Solo Exhibition
2019 – photo Zurich 19 – included in Director’s Choice series.
2017 – The London Group Open
2017 – London Photo Festival – Commendation
2016 – Photomonth East London
2015 – Open Spaces Society – Commendation
2014 – Photomonth East London
He is interested in how we relate to the world, adapt to it, change it, ignore it. One of the themes he finds himself attracted to is that of our yearning to find individual, private space away from our crowded environment, highlighting our essential, solitary selves. He perceives beauty in everyday scenes, seeking patterns, textures, different viewpoints, scale.
When we are happy within ourselves then we can truly see and appreciate our surroundings, notice the beauty and detail in the ordinary, the changing seasons, how we are at one with that, our place in the world. Our need to record that, through any artistic medium, makes a mark of permanence that acknowledges the impermanent state of everything including ourselves.
Following a trip to New York, he realised similarities between the images there and ones of London, already taken or imagined. He put together a body of work, Continuous Cities LON-NYC, pairing these similar but different scenes, highlighting a one-world view. The title is inspired by Italo Calvino’s book ‘Invisible Cities’. He has taken this further with other subjects exploring the idea of difference but sameness.
Travelling in the Southwest USA landscape and discovering the poetical descriptions in the works of the author Willa Cather, he brought together his images and her words in a collection and spent a period as Artist in Residence at the Willa Cather Foundation in 2019 ending in an exhibition of large format, direct printed, photographic works titled ‘Beauty in the Ordinary’.
He works with traditional materials and processes and explores the use of any photographic material often in extended or unconventional ways, which can bring a different interpretation or energy to a scene.
He has had multiple works exhibited in juried open calls in the United States with: Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati; Midwest Center, Wichita; Praxis, Minneapolis: New York Center for Photographic Arts.
UK & Europe: The London Group Open in 2017; several Photomonth East, London; photo Zurich 19 – in Director’s Choice series, 2019; ING Discerning Eye, 2022 – https://aestheticamagazine.com/varied-curation/ ; D31 Art Gallery 2023.
Prizes: Midwest Juried 2022 – Documentary Award; First in NYC4PA - Street, 2020; Hon. Mention Midwest Juried, 2020: Highly commended London Photo Festival 2017.
Publications: selected in Manifest Gallery International Photography Annual, INPHA 8, 2021. http://www.manifestgallery.org/inpha/inpha8/
Solo Exhibition: Willa Cather Foundation, Artist in Residence, 2019
Exhibitions and Open Call Selections:
2025 – Loosen Art, Rome – Scenes from Real Life
2024 – Midwest – Portfolio Platform
2023 – Midwest – Likeness
2023/25 – Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati – Magnitude Seven
2023 – D31 Art Gallery – Spring, the Magic of Transformation; Street
2022 – ING Discerning Eye – four selections
2022 – Midwest – Juried – two categories; Greyscale; Ten Ten. Praxis Gallery – Abandoned
2021 – Praxis Gallery – Portraiture; Shape
2021 – Midwest Center – Wide Open
2020 – NYC4PA Street – First Place awarded
2020 – Manifest Gallery – Two selections in Let There Be exhibition – http://www.manifestgallery.org/about/schedule17.html
2020 – Finalist for INHPA 8, International Photography Annual published by Manifest Gallery
2020 – Midwest Center for Photography – Suburban Architecture; Walkabout; Ten Ten
2020 – Midwest Center – Juried – 3 categories , one Hon. Mention.
2019 – Midwest Center – Ten Ten – 3 selected.
2019 – Willa Cather Foundation – Artist in Residence / Solo Exhibition
2019 – photo Zurich 19 – included in Director’s Choice series.
2017 – The London Group Open
2017 – London Photo Festival – Commendation
2016 – Photomonth East London
2015 – Open Spaces Society – Commendation
2014 – Photomonth East London