Richard Baker
@bakerpictures
Photography projects from south London
Wimbledon day 1 (and not necessarily about the tennis) www.instagram.com/p/DaLMn_Pjfo...
This gallery of dystopian Landskaps distantly acknowledges my Netherlandish Baker family roots on Foulness Island, the Bakkers. I also used to live in modern day Flanders which later influenced an affinity for the Dutch masters and bad Flemish TV www.bakerpictures.com/gallery/Land...
Recent cityscapes from our local south London park which sometimes are used out there to illustrate home ownership, energy - and the wider economy.
I’ve been on the streets of Chelsea where the flower festival is in full swing, the pavements blocked by flower followers who seem to photograph every petal outside local businesses. As my daughter rightly says, they’re ‘naff’ but I like to watch the peripheries where obsessive behaviour shows.
Reflecting on my most and least favourite moments during a week in the Derbyshire Dales National Park Park and they might be these #Derbyshire
Thanks, ‘Have I Got News For You’ for displaying my recent picture just now from the Archbishop’s enthronement in Canterbury - although, because I was leaping from my seat, I didnt catch their caption.
Spring tulips, south London. The shed however leans more and more every year.
Randomly found a usage of mine in the mags rack at Victoria - a howling New Zealand Sheepdog in the current dogs issue of National Geographic via ‘In Pictures’ / Getty images All good retailers etc.
USS Harry Truman, Persian Gulf, 2000. The US Navy allowed me to photograph an aircraft carrier for 3 days but after 24hrs we were flown off so although I’d already shot enough for two issues of the commissioning magazine, it didn’t feel I’d justified the months of negotiation to get me on-board.
My favourite ten pictures of 2025. A few are just one-offs and sometimes from a sequence of many and others are the result of much work. In any case, they’re in places I know well but as Saul Leiter said: ‘Mysterious things happen in familiar places’. www.instagram.com/p/DSzYDphjQA...
Damilola Taylor: The fight to protect young lives www.bbc.com/news/article... And the full-frame image from his memorial on the Peckham Estate #DamilolaTaylor
SUV and Fiat 500, Notting Hill, 2018 - which can be licensed through me 😉 @nickharkaway.com @jonburkeuk.bsky.social
More than 400 ‘horseless’ veteran cars left Hyde Park and drove through south London en-route to Brighton, including the 1904 Stanley Stream driven by ex-RAF fighter pilot and Wing Commander, Andy Green who also happens to still hold the world land speed record, which broke down and was retired.
We won't ever see AMW in a line-up like this again. Queen's death, 2022.
Portrait of a gallery cat with golden eyes, St James’s, 22nd September.
I walked and photographed on the beach experimental pedestrianised Oxford Street this afternoon - then came across a surprise, a familiar picture I made in 1990.
With an approaching storm darkening distant skies, a dog walker poses a group of different breeds to stay still for a photo in Ruskin Park, a public green space in south London, 11th September.
The everyday project that changed my formative photography, a documentary about motherhood and childhood - of a newborn daughter who soon turns 30 www.instagram.com/reel/DNf9rON...
The t-shirt of this elderly lady arrested yesterday reads ‘A woman’s place is in the resistance’ and I imagine her and other women there as Greenham peace camp veterans, well used to being harassed and dragged away by Thatcher’s security forces. Four decades on, protesting for same principles.
Lugged pounds of eaters to the local community fridge this morning - then returned our snooker table garden #apples