Richard Spurdens - Being There

I photograph what gives me an emotional response and all my images are personal, i.e. I take them for me. I don’t go out to chase exhibition images; if I did I think I would be very disappointed. My current lecture covers a variety of subjects from some interesting Sporting events (like Bull running in Spain). Some Landscape work, a bit of Street photography and some other areas that have interested me. I then move on to my studio and location work which feature a range of great models that I have had the pleasure to work with. This work which will feature Portraiture, Fashion, Dance and a few of my Artistic Nude figure studies. A number of these images have received awards from Salons around the world. Hopefully the talk will illustrating my personal response to the photographic opportunities I am presented with. This is not a technical talk but I do talk about the lighting I have used and I am happy to answer any questions you may have about an image and how I produced it.