Derek started taking pictures in his late teens, but became more serious about his photography when he joined Kodak in his mid-twenties to teach in the Kodak School of Industrial and Engineering Radiography. Following the completion of a diploma in scientific and technical applications of photography at the Harrow School of Photography, Derek was elected an Associate of both the Royal Photographic Society and the Institute of British Photographers.
He spent the remainder of his Kodak career in a number of areas of photographic education, teaching applied photography to customers and staff in the Kodak Photographic School, and later in the Kodak Marketing Education Centre, as well as lecturing widely throughout the UK on behalf of the company. During this time, his personal photography was largely devoted to recording family holidays and events.
The exhibition presents a range of subjects he has photographed in recent years, since returning to traditional documentary monochrome photography from many years of working exclusively in colour. Some of the images have been taken in, or close to, his home town of Chagford, whilst others have been captured in different parts of the UK and abroad.
Derek has exhibited widely throughout the South West both with the Royal Photographic Society, and as personal ventures. He particularly enjoys taking photographs of people going about their everyday lives and in their normal place of work. The absence of colour from his images is quite deliberate. His aim is to draw the viewer’s attention to the structure and composition of the photograph, and through this to another, often unobserved world.
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Llyn Crafnant Snowdonia by Derek Hunter