Keith Hammond

Born in 1952 Hammond lives in London and has been a photographer since aged 16 when he bought his first Rollieflex. Hammond went on to build a successful career in photography, developing a company with 30 photographers which serviced the then-thriving catalogue and print-publications industry. For many years his company housed the largest commercial photographic studio complex in Europe.

In 1998 and 1999 Hammond was invited to judge the John Kobal Portrait Award (now Taylor Wessing) exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Hammond has constantly photographed personal and non-commercial work throughout his working life but like celebrated photographer Vivian Maier, had never felt a compelling desire to exhibit. Until now.

Hammond’s personal work is about looking at the world around him. It is about observation. His work is not constrained by obvious categorization. In the landscape collage series ‘Organic Origins’ exhibited in London just before the pandemic took hold, Hammond has explored the way we look at nature and how we often overlook the things we take for granted.

After a two-day workshop in Bradford with David Hockney in 1986 Hammond embraced the photographic joiner which Hockney made so famous, as ...

2014 Art for Art Sake, Group Exhibition, Cork St Gallery, London.
2020 Organic Origins Solo Exhibition, Highgate Gallery, London