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Alan Holden
UK Nominee Fine Art Professional "Duke of Lancaster, North Wales" Land locked ship used for graffiti art I was born in Tunbridge Wells and have lived near Lewes in East Sussex, UK for over twenty years. I now split my time between the Peak District and Forest Hill in South East London. I am married to Gill, a nurse and have two children, Andrew and Rose. I trained as a designer, photographer and film maker before joining the BBC as a film editor. I left the BBC to focus on commercial video production, interactive media and photography for corporate clients. Ten years ago I made a move into portraiture and commercial portrait photography. My work as a film and video director has taken me into many unusual places and countries. Wherever I went I always carried a camera with the objective of developing my fine art and street photography. Like many photographers starting out I was inspired by the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson. He expanded my mind and showed me what was possible with dedication and the application of craft. He also demonstrated that street photography was no easy discipline. What seemed to come naturally to him was like a mountain to climb for me in those early years. I'm still climbing but that's the pleasure. To make matters more complicated I decided at a very early stage to work in colour predominantly although not exclusively. I was very influenced by the photography of Jay Maisel and Joel Meyerowitz. Their work threw a switch in my mind and I wanted to try my hand at this most difficult of art forms, street photography. Occasionally I take a photograph and think I'm getting somewhere which generates enough fuel to keep me going for months. Nowadays, my personal work is centred in cities such as Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester and more recently, Paris and Lisbon. However, nothing beats London for endless raw material. |
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