Richard Bailey

I have been a freelance photographer for twenty years, primarily working in the areas of advertising and portrait photography.
I also curate a touring exhibition concerned with all aspects of Down's syndrome.

I have many personal projects that I work on and have included the 'bird series' on this site.
I have a book out called 'Darwin's Pigeons' which can be bought directly from me or from Amazon.

Westminster University

The Natural History Museum of Ohio recently used a number of my portraits of pigeons for their exhibition about Charles Darwin.

For the past ten years I have curated the Shifting Perspectives photographic exhibition, taking it to over 50 different venues in 12 different countries including Japan, USA, Hungary and Turkey.


As part of and as Curator of SHIFTING PERSPECTIVES:
London metropolitan University 2005, The Gallery@OXO, London 2005, The Knowledge Spa, Truro, Cornwall 2006, Norwich Arts and Media Centre 2006, The Gallery@OXO, London 2006, The Langdon Down Centre, Teddington. On permanent display. 2007 GlaxoSmithKline HQ, London 2008 University of Cardiff. On permanent display.2008 The Gallery@OXO, London2008, The Lamplight Arts Centre, Co. Durham2008 GlaxoSmithKline HQ, London 2008, South Devon College2009, Edinburgh Filmhouse, Scotland2009 GlaxoSmithKline Headquarters, Scotland2009 The gallery@oxo, London2009 The Proud Gallery, London2009 The Dean Clough Gallery, Halifax 2009, Dublin City University, Dublin2009, Leeds University, Leeds and many more.

This work explores the photographic representation of people with Downs syndrome, challenging attitudes and prejudices and examining alternative representations o...