Brian David Stevens


Brian David Stevens is a British photographer, based in London. He has made work on sound systems of Notting Hill Carnival, war veterans, the Grenfell Tower fire, the British coastline and the suicide spot of Beachy Head. Stevens' work is held in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, London and National Galleries of Scotland.

Life and work

Stevens is based in London, where he has made a number of photography projects. In 2004 and 2016 he photographed sound systems of Notting Hill Carnival. Each year between 2002 and 2012 he made portraits of war veterans following a ceremony at The Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday—just their faces photographed close-up, without cap badges, medals and insignia, against a black cloth to obscure the background, and without identifying names in the captions. He photographed the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire every day for a month in 2017.
Stevens has also made work elsewhere. He created diptychs from images taken on the shores of Britain, looking out to sea. He spent 12 months documenting the area between Beachy Head and Birling Gap, in the South Downs National Park in southern England, an infamous suicide spot.

Publications

Books by Stevens

Stevens' work is held in the following permanent collections: