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Ed Thompson is a documentary photographer and a freelance london photographer based in East London. He works commercially as a freelance portrait photographer, reportage photographer, commercial photographer and corporate photographer. He started studying photography in 2000 at the Kent Institute of Art & Design (now known as University College for the Arts - UCA) during that time he become obsessed with documentary photography that focused on the surreal and the hyperreal. He idolised Diane Arbus, Joel Sternfeld and William Eggleston. In 2002 images from his first experience photographing documentary street photography were exhibited at the Arles Photography festival in an exhibition organised by students of the L'ecole nationale de la photographie. Whilst in Arles he met the Russian photographer Sergei Tchilikov when they were both dancing to DJ Rebel at a private view, Edward later went on to apprentice Sergei in Paris and galvanised his beliefs in the power of documentary photography, and what a friend of Sergei's termed, the ability for photography to all you to touch at something great. On return to KIAD to complete his BA degree he researched the origin of street photography and in particular the photographs and writings of Henri-Cartier Bresson, in many minds Bresson is great for his photography, but he was also great in his integrity, that was just as inspiring, his attitudes to consumerism and the modern age being poth poigniant and just as insightful decades after they were written. In 2007 he studied the MA degree in photojournalism & doucmentary photography, based in south london at the London College of Communication, formerly known as the London College of Printing. During the MA as well as working on various documentary photo-essays on Miniature Steam trains, Living Historians he also completed a substantial body of work photographing in the Texas Hill Country. Images from these photography projects have been published in international photography festivals, in galleries, magazines, newspapers and on television.His coverage of the Folkestone earthquake in April 2007 featured in every national newspaper, most notably on the front page of the Sunday Times newspaper. He graduated in 2008 with a 1st class distinction for the body of work he completed during the Masters Degree at L.C.C.
All the photographs on this website were shot on photographic colour negative film, he works commercially being both a film photographer, and a digital photographer for a number of clients in London and in Kent.
All photographs copyright Edward Thompson 2010