- Colin Hampden-White
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name = Sir Colin George Hampden-White
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birthdate = 1971
location =London ,United Kingdom
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nationality = British
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awards =Sir Colin George Hampden-White, (born in
London , 1971) is a British photographer and is a member of the Hampden family, descendant ofRenn Dickson Hampden (1793 – 23 April 1868) andJohn Hampden (circa 1595–1643), English politician andRoundhead in theEnglish Civil War . Colin married Caroline Natasha Howe on the 20th September 2008 atWestminster Abbey , Sir Colin and Lady Hampden-White live in London.Family crests
Early life and work
Hampden-White's parents were Colonel and Mrs Michael Hampden White and he was born in
Chelsea , London. With a father in the Army the family moved home every three years includingGermany andSudan in Hampden-White's early years. He went to prep school at St. Bede's School,Bishton Hall inStaffordshire until he was 14 and then attendedDownside School . After Downside he spent three years living inKenya before studying Quantity Surveying atNapier University inEdinburgh from 1992 - 1995 after which he worked for Johnstone Binnie Mackenzie. In 1998 he turned to photography, working at the Covershot Studio inGlasgow until the end of 1999.Career
From 2001 - 2003 he worked for Johnstone Press, firstly with The
Edinburgh Evening News and thenThe Scotsman andScotland on Sunday . At the end of 2003 he moved to London were he freelanced for many London newspapers including TheFinancial Times ,The Times andThe Daily Mail . Hampden-White has also worked with theBBC . [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cambridgeshire/content/image_galleries/secret_garden_08_two_gallery.shtml?2 BBC Cambridge] ]Hampden-White takes a good deal of music photography, from little known bands like the Fairies Band and up and coming bands like The
Noisettes and Neutrinos to established acts such as TheScissor Sisters andCold Play some of these pictures can be seen on his website and have been published in various publications. He has also taken stills for films using the By Line name of Colin White. Films include; The Recording, which was nominated for Best Short Film Director - Annetta Laufer and for Best Cinematography - Peter Talbot at The Kodak Short Film Competition 2007 [ [http://www.peter-talbot.co.uk/The%20Recording.html The Recording] ] and Reverb both in 2007. [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2531870/ Page on the IMDB for Colin White] ] In 2008 he took stills for A short film called Blackout by Director Tawfiq-Ul-Haq and was shown at the East End Film Festival in London. [ [http://www.eastendfilmfestival.com/index.php?/programme/C17/#New Pathways] ]In 2008 Hampden-White left newspaper work and sought the representation of a gallery and in May 2008 The Rebecca Hossack Gallery began to represent him. He is also a contributing feature writer and photographer for Every Model Magazine. Hampden-White is now working on a project called Facing East, [ [http://www.bbbc.org.uk/pages/facing-east.html Facing East at Bromely by Bow] ] which is run by Art Force at the
Bromley by Bow Centre in east London. The project is collecting stories and objects relating to those stories from people with strong connections to the local area, Hampden-White's involvement in the project is to take portraits of the participants and their objects. These objects and portraits are to be exhibited in The Millers House onThree Mills Island in the east end of London and TheCharlotte Street Gallery [http://www.londontown.com/LondonStreets/charlotte_street_ecb.html] in the West End of LondonRecent exhibitions include the Cork Street Open Exhibition, which ran from the 31st of July to the 9th if August at the Cork Street Gallery London. [ [http://www.corkstreetopenexhibition.com/section197240.html Cork Street Open Exhibition] ] Colin Hampden-White exhibited as part of E17 Art Trail in Walthamstow, London from the 4th to the 16th of September 2008. [ [http://www.e17arttrail.co.uk/index.php?page=9&passed_index=145 E17 Art Trail] ]
Examples of exhibited and published work
References
External links
* [http://www.colinhampdenwhite.com Main site for Colin Hampden-White]
* [http://www.r-h-g.co.uk Rebecca Hossack Gallery]
* [http://www.axisweb.org/seCVPG.aspx?ARTISTID=13327 Profile for Colin Hampden-White on Axis]
* [http://www.r-h-g.co.uk/artists/cv/curriculum_vitae_colin_hampden_white/52,0,0.html Biography at Rebecca Hossack Gallery]
* [http://www.emmagazine.co.uk Main site Every Model Magazine]
* [http://www.facingeast.co.uk Facing East Website]Persondata
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