Richard Heeps' Forgotten Worlds
Green Pebble August/September 2010 issue

Richard Heeps, Cambridge Fine Art Photographer

Richard Heeps’ work can be viewed on Richard Heeps, Richard Heeps Gallery and on Bleachbox

For Richard Heeps, photography is all about whether a viewer can relate to an image. Since the subject matter may be familiar, it’s the photographer’s ability to ‘get a different take on something the viewer knows very, very well’ that makes the difference between an image exciting the viewer’s imagination, and it languishing unnoticed.

The starting point for every one of Richard’s photographs lies not with the viewer, but with himself. ‘All the work relates to me in some way,’ he says of the thousands of images he has built up as a fine art photographer over the past twenty years. ‘I wouldn’t go off somewhere in the world and take photographs for the sake of it; I’ve got to – at all times – have that personal relationship with the subject. I’m not sure how I would describe it. Sincere? Sympathetic? I don’t know. Hopefully, whatever it is, it is unpretentious.’

This relationship has taken him from the Fens near Cambridge where he lives, to South Africa, birthplace of his wife Natashia. At first glance some of the South African images could be mistaken for the Fens, and one of the images taken through a rain-spattered car windscreen is selling particularly well here in the UK. Why? Richard thinks it may be because South Africa’s Free State has a familiarity to it – it is flat, like the Fens and as a result his personal signature has crept into how he approached it....

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Richard Heeps' Forgotten Worlds Green Pebble August/September 2010 issue

Richard Heeps' Forgotten Worlds
Green Pebble August/September 2010 issue