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Richard
Warren
Born in Houston Texas, Richard Warren’s father was a newspaperman, but
Warren had a different vision for his life. At the age of fifteen he moved
to the Pacific Northwest where after High School worked as a commercial
fisherman in Alaska and also earned a degree in Graphic arts from Western
Washington University. At the age of twenty-one he moved to New York and
began assisting photographers: Bill King, Helmet Newton, Denis Piel,
Robert Mapplethorpe and quickly learned how to set up photo-shoots all
over the world and gained hands-on experience in the fashion photography
business.
At the age of twenty-six he had his first break while living in Milan; a
30 page Couture editorial in Italian Bazaar photographing Valentino, and
other top name couture designers. Warren continued to work in Milan and
Paris before moving to Sydney Australia in 1989 where he worked for
Australian Vogue, Follow-Me, Dolly and Australian Harpers Bazaar. In 1990
Warren returned to New York and started a profitable career as a fashion
photographer as seen in his Client List.
Having accomplished much of what he set out to do in fashion photography
Warren decided to pursue his personal work and in 1997 had a successful
show at New York’s Bonni Benrubi Gallery. The debut show was reviewed
and praised by the New York Times. Numerous gallery shows in the U.S. and
Europe followed and today Richard Warren’s personal work is collected
worldwide. The personal work was a return to the roots of photography. He
used an 8x10 camera, brass lens and a 150 year-old film process called
Pyro. The resulting images were modern with a nod to the classic images of
photography’s humble beginnings. Rodale Publishing is publishing his
first book Mother Natures Garden available in late 2004.
The Fall of 2001 was a set back not only for New Yorkers but for the rest
of the world. During this period of reduced commercial work Warren
immersed himself in the digital world and the result is a state-of-the
art, 22-mega pixel digital studio in Manhattan’s Garment district. While
still shooting traditional film on location, Warren has cutting edge
knowledge of digital workflow from capture to post production such as
retouching, digital composites and digital archiving.
Richard Warren currently lives in New York with his wife, two children, a
150-foot English border, which he maintains, and an old Martin 12-string
guitar, which he plays classic Delta Blues in the Robert Johnson-style.
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