David Collyer FRPS is a South Wales based photographer. His landscape work, often stark, and shot on black and white film, explores the transition of the land from one state to another, and is largely concerned with the scars that man leaves behind.
David discovered a passion for telling a story through images as a teenager, spending time with the press photographers and journalists on a local paper in Surrey edited by his father.
As a documentary photographer who works predominantly on long term projects, he returned to shooting film a few years ago, preferring a sixty-year-old Leica and the anticipation of what he’s captured, to the certainty of over-shooting with a modern digital camera.
His work has been published internationally, and has appeared in magazines and newspapers, as well as the book All in a Day’s Work, documenting hospital staff during the Covid-19 pandemic. The book is in the collection of the British Library and The National Museum of Wales.
His photo of a shattered theatre practitioner appeared on the front page of The Guardian and was one of Amateur Photographer magazine’s photos of the year in 2020. He is currently working on a further two books, and is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, as well as being named Documentary Photographer of the Year 2021.
The Concrete and the Clay is a joint exhibition of David’s work, made throughout Europe, and Agnieszka Pohl's work which has been inspired by David’s photography.
You can read more about David and his work here
