ANTHONY COLEMAN

Anthony Coleman is a British photographer specialising in architecture and landscape... I trained first in architecture, but had fallen in love with photography when I developed my first print in the black and white darkroom at school (something between alchemy and an epithany) - and come across the work of Henri Cartier Bresson. A short course in photojournalism got me knocking on doors and I was fortunate enough to cut my teeth shooting features for Fleet Street broadsheets and their colour magazines. Feeling a lack of any real formal training though I decided to enrol on an MA at the Royal College of Art where I was able to pin down the type of photography that really interested me: The contextual landscape, architecture and space - the built environment and the world around us. Walker Evans, the Bechers, Andreas Gursky, Joel Sternfeld, Chris Kilip and Stephen Shore became my heroes, along with 17th century Dutch painters Hendrick Avercamp and Pieter Saenredam... I have been..