Richard Bunce

“For some time now it has seemed to me that the two questions we should ask of any
strong landscape are these: firstly, what do I know when I am in this place that I can know
nowhere else? And then, vainly, what does this place know of me that I cannot know of
myself?” Robert MacFarlane

I have been a freelance photographer for just over 10 years. Working for a variety of clients including M&S and Coca Cola, as well as a number of publications means consistently practicing and demonstrating a broad range of photography techniques and skills.

I am internationally exhibited, with prints held in both private and public collections including the Royal Photographic Society's permanent collection. I have also been nominated for many awards including: Winner of Sheffield Photographic Open 2012, Renaissance Photography Awards 2012 finalist, Lumen Digital Arts Prize 2012 finalist and shortlisted for the Vantage Art Prize 2013 and shortlisted for International Garden Photographer of the Year and British Wildlife Photographer of the Year (2015).

I have been involved in delivering workshops and participating in education programmes since completing my degree in Photography and Digital Imaging in 2003.

In 2014 I founded Walking ...

2003 BA (hons) Photography and digital imaging, Reading Art College and School of Art and Design

Exhibitions & Awards (abridged)

July 2015 British Wildlife Photographer Awards, Short listed

Dec 2014 - Jan 2015 Trinity Walk Big Screen Commission, Trinity Shopping Centre, Wakefield:

Commissioned by Art House & Trinity WalkWakefield to produce x3 short time-lapse films relating to walking around Wakefield that were then displayed on the centre’s big screen during Christmas & January 2015

April 2014 Untitled (22 Walks through Leeds at f22), Trinity Arts Centre, Leeds:
Solo exhibition of Leeds 22 photography project. (www.leeds22.co.uk)

Feb 2014 International Garden Photographer of the Year, Highly Commended

March - April 2013 Webber & Dakowicz, White Cloth Photography Gallery,

Leeds - Selected to exhibit as part of an exhibition celebrating the work of Donald Webber & Maciej Dakowicz

Feb 2013 Short listed for 2013 Vantage Art Prize, Ellington House, Leeds Valley Park - Short listed and exhibited at a Departure Arts pop-up exhibition as part of the Vantage Art Prize

Jan 2013 - 2014 Lumen Art Prize Show, Gallery 27, Cork Street, London - Launch of a 12 month International touring exhibition

Dec 2012 Sheffield Photographic Open Winner, Voted best in show of the Sheffield Photographic Open by the publi...