Peter Dazeley


Peter Dazeley known as Dazeley, is a photographer living and working in London, known for fine art, advertising, anamorphic and nude photography, as well as flower photography.

Biography

Dazeley 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; they live in Coombe Hill, Surrey, England.
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

Photographic career

studied photography at Holland Park Comprehensive 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, Graphis Inc. 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 photography, out of his own studio complex in Chelsea, London.
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.

Style

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.
‘Jan 2010 – Dazeley has been voted amongst the top 30 most influential photographers of the decade, ’

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