Richard Ansett

Richard Ansett is a fine art, social documentary portrait photographer. He is a passionate, vocal advocate of the medium as an art form, talking and writing candidly about the realities of a life in photography. Richard is increasingly focused on enabling a new generation and those from marginalised communities to develop a relationship to photography. He won the overall prize for photography at the Arte Laguna Prize, his series ‘Mother and Child’ exhibited at UNICEF Ukraine as a metaphor for the trauma of enforced internal migration due to conflict. His portrait of a child survivor of the Grenfell Tower fire was selected as the People’s Choice at the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize. His portrait of Sir Grayson Perry ‘BIRTH’ was awarded first prize at the Sony World Photography Awards.