Richard Dickson is a photographer based in London. 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.
To be happy in ourselves we need to understand, know and be happy in our world, and for that we need to observe, recognize, and appreciate our surroundings, 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, LON-NYC, pairing these similar but different scenes, highlighting a one-world view. 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 Sates 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.
Prizes: 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.
Solo Exhibition: Willa Cather Foundation, Artist in Residence, 2019
Exhibitions and Open Call Selections:
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
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.
To be happy in ourselves we need to understand, know and be happy in our world, and for that we need to observe, recognize, and appreciate our surroundings, 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, LON-NYC, pairing these similar but different scenes, highlighting a one-world view. 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 Sates 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.
Prizes: 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.
Solo Exhibition: Willa Cather Foundation, Artist in Residence, 2019
Exhibitions and Open Call Selections:
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
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