Ralph Whitehead is a London based fashion photographer and darkroom experimentalist.
His work has been featured in several UK and international magazines. His work was recently selected as one of the winners in the single image category of Arles Open Walls exhibition at Galerie Huit, part of the Rencontre d’Arles international festival of photography.
Read more about his work in an interview for the Intrepid Camera blog.
For all enquiries, fashion and portrait commissions, editorial work or print sales please contact
ralph@ralphwhitehead.com
“A scientist, thinker and self made artist. Whitehead combines his technical and chemical knowhow to create images that possess a visual dichotomy. Something otherworldly becomes material, he conjers art though alchemy. In his work he explores duality through process. Process becomes the framework that shapes his inquiry. Dark / light, beautiful/repulsive, joyous/ tragic. Whitehead’s images compel us to look at what we may have not dared to see. The viewer is challenged to see the allure in everything.”
Delia Cabral , Art writer and curator
Geneva, 2023
Exhibitions:
Photobook Café - June 2023
Cluster Photography & Print - March 2022
Revela’t Festival, Barcelona: 07-17 June 2019
SHED London: "Alchemical Portraits" 05-31 May 2017
Rich Mix: “Photomonth photo open” 02-26 November 2016 (group exhibition part of Photomonth East London Photography festival 2016)
Fazenda UK: “Urban Reflections (Light Echoes)” 01-31 October 2105 (part of Photomonth East London Photography festival 2015)
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art: Artists book fair 05-06 December 2014
Rich Mix: “Photomonth photo open” 06-31 November 2015 (group exhibition part of Photomonth East London Photography festival 2014)
Gallery320: “Light Headed” 04-31 October 2014 (group exhibition part of Photomonth East London Photography festival 2014)
London Analogue Festival: 12-14-September 2014 (group exhibition)
Fazenda UK: “technicolor dreams” 04-January-04-February 2014