Andrew Pounder BSc(Hons)
I am a member of the Royal Photographic Society and the Arts & Culture Network, based in the Northeast of England and have dabbled with photography for quite a few years as a hobby, whilst concentrating on my career and running my freelance IT Services company.
It was only when my then-girlfriend (and now wife) let me use her DSLR camera extensively that I took things more seriously, especially when I discovered High Dynamic Range (HDR) techniques of blending multiple frames of a scene into a single image. Local urban and coastal locations are where I tend to focus most projects, enjoying creating monochrome, landscape, fine-art photography, HDR and still-life compositions, and anything else that takes my fancy.
I have a "Featured Submission" ARTDOC Photography Magazine article, [Two Tone Toon], published online. I continued to develop this documentary project to create my first monochrome A4 landscape-sized book, which has been published (2024) with the same name: [Two Tone Toon] and a companion online exhibition gallery, containing some of the book's images. This project has been expanded to create a five-volume ebook series, available via Google Books.
I have gone on to create "Shades Of The Cotswolds" photography book, which is available online via Google Books.
Previews of these ebooks can be found here
My latest book project is a curation of my best and favourite images, taken over the last decade or so, called "Fine Art Photography - Signature Collection", and covering multiple genres and disciplines across 250 pages.
Many older images can be purchased via my Redbubble store, which also serves as a chronicle of my development as a photographer over the last ten years, showing an evolution from using free, basic processing software and lower-pixel-density cameras, to the Nikon D810 and professional software I use today.
Monochrome images, many of which are in addition to those shown here, can be purchased via my Mono Art Photography Store.
Showcase examples of current and more recent activities will be presented in the galleries here.
Please feel free to get in touch for any commercial opportunities and potential future project participation.
Enjoy the site!
AndrewP
Artist Statement: The Intentional Unbound
My practice as a fine art photographer is a deliberate rejection of the expected. I do not pursue a signature style, nor do I confine myself to a single genre, medium, or aesthetic philosophy. Instead, I embrace photographic promiscuity, finding creative vitality in the random, the accidental, and the radically disparate.
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A Celebration of the Unbound
My portfolio is an ever-shifting landscape, purposefully devoid of
a single anchor point. One series might delve into the stark, monochromatic minimalism of the landscape, while the next explodes with the vibrant, chaotic staging of a street documentary, and another might employ the soft focus and grain of an entirely different era. Each project, each image, is treated as an independent visual argument, requiring its own unique language—a language I choose from the entire lexicon of photographic history and technique.
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The Power of Context
In a world where algorithms push us toward comforting consistency, I choose to disrupt. The consistency in my work is not in its look, but in the underlying intent to observe, react, and translate without stylistic constraint. This approach insists that the subject—the light, the moment, the narrative—should dictate the method. The true challenge is not to make everything look the same, but to discover the most honest, powerful way to present each unique vision, even if that means abandoning the rules I followed just the day before.
