Keynote Speaker Feb 2024

David Collyer – All in a Day’s Work

This event is being shared to club members by Zoom for you to join in from home. You will find the link in the latest ‘Snapshots’. Do not go to the hall, you will be cold & lonely!

David is a photographer based in South Wales
⚫ He is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and won the Documentary Photographer of the Year competition in 2021
⚫ David works primarily using film
⚫ His work has been widely published, including on the front page of The Guardian newspaper

David is a photographer based in South Wales
⚫ He is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and won the Documentary Photographer of the Year competition in 2021
⚫ David works primarily using film
⚫ His work has been widely published, including on the front page of The Guardian newspaper

David Collyer FRPS is a South Wales based photographer. He 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 modern digital cameras.

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. David is a member of the F/8 Documentary group of photographers.