Anthony Epes

I have been obsessed with photography since I was six and saw my first issue of National Geographic magazine. When I asked my dad how they got the photos for the magazine he replied that photographers do it. I knew then that I wanted to be one. A photographer. A bit corny? Sure!
Photography has been my passion ever since. (When I was twelve, he caved-in and gave me his AE-1 camera that I had been “borrowing”, secretly, from his room).
Photography is an extraordinarily creative outlet – it has taught me how to truly see and experience the world; to not just pass through, busy and distracted, on my way to somewhere else, but to learn to pause and notice the beauty of light in our everyday surroundings. That is why I love to teach photography – to help others have this incredible creative experience.
“As a young child growing up in Maine the forest was my back garden. I would leave my
house early in the morning and wander the forest all day. For me the natural world is a
second life, a fantasy land of purity and calm, that I escape to when the violence of our
concrete city gets too much for me.
“I feel an attachment to the artistic tradition of reverence for natural beauty and reverence
for the technical skill of the artist. T...

Brooks Institute of Photography 1991-1994
BA Commercial Photography/ Colour Theory

Born 1968
1984 Group show VAFB
1992-96 Brooks Institute of Photography
1996 Graduation show
1996 Accelerated Colour,The Brewery Art Walk, Los Angeles
1997 Vague love: a family forgotten (distance by choice),The Brewery art walk, Los Angeles
2003 London at Dawn book launch, Stoney Street Gallery, London
2004 London at Dawn, Arts & Crafts Guild, London
2004 Portraits, Affordable Art fair, Capital Culture Gallery, London
2005 Affordable Art fair, White Wall partners
2006 Arts Angel group show, Royal College of Art, London
2007 Arboreal Dreams, Capital Culture gallery, London (group show)
2008 Arboreal Dreams, Popup gallery Barnes, Barnes, UK
2009 Arboreal Dreams,The Gallery at Redchurch Street, London
2009 London at Dawn, C46 Gallery, London
2010 Paris at Dawn, Popup Gallery, London
2010 London at Dawn, Mayor’s office for the Story of London festival, London
2013 Paris and London at Dawn book launch, St. Pancras International concourse, London
2013 Paris and London at Dawn, Foyles Gallery, London
2014 Homeless World Cup portraits, Downstairs at Mother London, London
2014 Homeless World Cup portraits, East End film festival, London
2014 Homeless World Cup portraits, Gallery at Leo Burnett, London
2017 Istanbul...