Dan Boulton

Dan Boulton was born in 1973 in Enfield, North London. His work, which crosses the lines between documentary, street photography and fine art has been featured in Document Skateboard and Plus1 magazines and the book “Emulsion Stew”. As he grew older he got introduced to the work of photographers like Larry Clark and Nan Goldin and then documentary photographers such as Eugene Richards, Mary Ellen Mark and  Jim Goldberg and his Raised by Wolves book.He generally shoots with a Leica M6 with a 50mm Summicron lens. 


Visual style:

Dan is more of a fine art photographer, but the work is essentially documentary in its approach. His background that he studied for his degree is in Fine Art,but also over the past 'decade documentary' photography has found more of an audience in galleries than in the printed form such as magazines.

Tom wood

2013

This photo is simple yet effective, a lot of Dan's work is in black and white which does make the whole photo look a lot more interesting.

Southbank

2005-2011

This photo catches my eye because it's so simplistic and no one in this photo was ready/prepared for it so it looks really natural and realistic.

On walls: Haslam

2010

NYC

This photo is really simply but again because it's in black and white it does stand out.

'Photography allows you to be interested in people legitimately and I’m always intrigued by people and cultures'

My question for Dan:

Would you go into photography full time and give up your job as a teacher or not?

SOURCES: 

http://blog.leica-camera.com/photographers/interviews/dan-boulton-southbank/

http://findrangers.com/danboulton

http://www.danboulton.com/