November 15, 2023 • 124 mins
Richard Baker has worked on commissioned editorial photography, corporate assignments, personal reportage projects, and several collaborations with authors. and for a book about
His book, The Red Arrows, covers the 40th display season of Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team, the Red Arrows. 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; and 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Profile).
Most recently, his documentary and landscape interpretations offered a visual narrative for another collaboration with Polly Morland in 'A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story' (Picador), shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize.
His early years were spent working in aviation before he studied documentary photography at Newport under Magnum's David Hurn, then freelancing for the Observer newspaper before being represented by the Katz/IPG agency.
Nowadays, he works independently and on a smaller scale, pursuing personal projects that tell tales on topical or conceptual themes while aspiring to be unconventional and incongruous. As well as more recent digital work, his extensive archive of scanned film images from the mid-80s to early 2000s is online here at Photoshelter, with Getty Images (via 'In Pictures') and Alamy.
Bylines include: The Guardian; The Observer; The Sunday Times; Sunday Express Magazine; Financial Times; The Times of London; The Spectator;
TLS; National Geographic; The New Statesman; Huffpost; Tatler; MSN; Bloomberg; Unherd; LIFE Magazine; Time Magazine; Newsweek; Der Spiegel;
Stern; GEO; L'Espresso; Le Figaro Magazine, etc., plus daily worldwide usage via Getty Images.
Richard Baker
Website: https://www.bakerpictures.com/index
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/richardbakersphotos
X: https://twitter.com/bakerpictures
Threads: https://www.threads.net/@richardbakersphotos
Books:
'Places to Go, People to See' (Mother Agency, 2001)
'Red Arrows' (Dalton Watson, 2004)
'Trafalgar Square' (National Portrait Gallery, 2005)
'UK at Home' (Against All Odds Productions, 2008)
'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' (Hamish Hamilton UK 2009 and foreign editions)
'A Week at the Airport' (Profile Books UK 2009 and foreign editions)
'Religion for Atheists' (Hamish Hamilton 2011 and foreign editions)
'Risk Wise' (Profile Books 2015 and foreign editions)
'A Fortunate Woman' (Picador, 2022)
'Work: 1993-2023' (Blurb, 2023)
Camera is on:
X: https://twitter.com/Camerasnaps
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Camerasnaps/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/camera_books/
Merch: http://camera.myspreadshop.co.uk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/camera.proje...
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0I5BX44...
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Thank you for all your support.
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His book, The Red Arrows, covers the 40th display season of Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team, the Red Arrows. 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; and 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Profile).
Most recently, his documentary and landscape interpretations offered a visual narrative for another collaboration with Polly Morland in 'A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story' (Picador), shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize.
His early years were spent working in aviation before he studied documentary photography at Newport under Magnum's David Hurn, then freelancing for the Observer newspaper before being represented by the Katz/IPG agency.
Nowadays, he works independently and on a smaller scale, pursuing personal projects that tell tales on topical or conceptual themes while aspiring to be unconventional and incongruous. As well as more recent digital work, his extensive archive of scanned film images from the mid-80s to early 2000s is online here at Photoshelter, with Getty Images (via 'In Pictures') and Alamy.
Bylines include: The Guardian; The Observer; The Sunday Times; Sunday Express Magazine; Financial Times; The Times of London; The Spectator;
TLS; National Geographic; The New Statesman; Huffpost; Tatler; MSN; Bloomberg; Unherd; LIFE Magazine; Time Magazine; Newsweek; Der Spiegel;
Stern; GEO; L'Espresso; Le Figaro Magazine, etc., plus daily worldwide usage via Getty Images.
Richard Baker
Website: https://www.bakerpictures.com/index
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/richardbakersphotos
X: https://twitter.com/bakerpictures
Threads: https://www.threads.net/@richardbakersphotos
Books:
'Places to Go, People to See' (Mother Agency, 2001)
'Red Arrows' (Dalton Watson, 2004)
'Trafalgar Square' (National Portrait Gallery, 2005)
'UK at Home' (Against All Odds Productions, 2008)
'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' (Hamish Hamilton UK 2009 and foreign editions)
'A Week at the Airport' (Profile Books UK 2009 and foreign editions)
'Religion for Atheists' (Hamish Hamilton 2011 and foreign editions)
'Risk Wise' (Profile Books 2015 and foreign editions)
'A Fortunate Woman' (Picador, 2022)
'Work: 1993-2023' (Blurb, 2023)
Camera is on:
X: https://twitter.com/Camerasnaps
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Camerasnaps/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/camera_books/
Merch: http://camera.myspreadshop.co.uk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/camera.proje...
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0I5BX44...
Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/ed3...
Thank you for all your support.
#richardbaker #redarrows #photojournalism #photographer #photography #photos #documentaryphotography #camera #photobook #cameratalk #lifestories #streetphotography #wtfpodcast #blackandwhitephotography #raf #english
Music from Uppbeat
https://uppbeat.io/t/volo/convergence
License code: JYOQVBFP1O1VM90X
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