Alan Taylor

I am a fine art and portrait photographer based in the UK. My work is the celebration of people: their dignity, their beauty, their inner self, their achievements. In short their humanity.

I am a self-taught photographer, having grown up with the medium since I was a child. My passion for it remained with me whilst I worked in a variety of museums and art galleries around the country. Eventually I had to leave the stability of that work to follow this passion of mine.

I learnt my craft when film was the only medium and I still enjoy using 35mm and medium format film. I have a collection of vintage lenses, each with their own characteristics, that I use on both film and digital camera bodies. These lenses really are my palette! And the word palette is key here, I am inspired more by painters than photographers, particularly those of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

BA(Hons) Keele University, UK

Exhibitions at various dates in art galleries and craft rooms through the Midlands, UK