London as you have never seen the capital before, through the lens of Kensington native Peter Dazeley
After so many months of lockdown, it is wonderful that locations are opening up again and coming back to life.
Find below a selection of London photographs from Peter Dazeley’s new book, London Explored , which were shared with City PM today. Which places do you recognise?
Dazeley, is a photographer who lives in Kensington and works solely in London, known for fine art, advertising, anamorphic and nude photography, as well as flower photography.
He was born in West Kensington, London, England, in 1948. Dazeley, son of William and Freda Dazeley MBE, is dyslexic and left school at 15 without formal qualifications. He is married and has a daughter and a son.
Dazeley was awarded the British Empire Medal in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List, January 2017, for his services to photography and charity.
He studied photography at Holland Park Comprehensive (sometimes called the Socialist Eton) and started assisting the photographer Peter Sowerby at Essex West Studios off Fleet Street, London in 1963.
His work has won awards from organisations across the world, including the Association of Photographers, the Royal Photographic Society in the UK, EPICA in France, Applied Arts Magazine in Canada and Graphis in the USA .
Dazeley works with Platinum prints and is currently working on several projects including X-ray, flowers, pregnant women, anamorphic nude and solarisation (Sabattier effect) photography.
Dazeley became a member of the Association of Photographers in 1977 and became a life member in 1984.
In June 2013 Dazeley was awarded a Fellowship by the Royal Photographic Society.
He has developed a number of imaging techniques in advertising photography, including the use of limited depth of field and the out of focus anamorphic figures as used in the Assume Nothing Campaign for the Terrence Higgins Trust. He has also used x-ray photography for artistic purposes.
