Peter Dench is a UK-based photographer, presenter, writer, author and curator.
Dench’s style easily lends itself to editorial and commercial assignments for global brands such as Ford, Canon, Coca-Cola, Weetabix, Barclays Wealth and Barclaycard.
Achievements include a World Press Photo Award in the People in the News Stories Category for the reportage, Drinking of England. A FIFA-sponsored project, Football’s Hidden Story, comprising 26 stories across 20 different countries, documenting the positive impact of football, received six global accolades.
Solo exhibitions include: Made in England at the Haus der Geschichte, Bonn, Germany; Trans-Siberian World Cup at the After Nyne Gallery, London UK. A1: Britain on the Verge and DENCH DOES DALLAS, both at the Art Bermondsey Project Space, London UK. The British Abroad at the Photoreporter festival, France. England Uncensoredat the Visa Pour L’image Festival of Photojournalism in France and the Periscopio Festival, Spain.
Books include: THE DENCH DOZEN: Great Britons of Photography Vol.1 (2016 Hungry Eye); DENCH DOES DALLAS (2015 Bluecoat Press), The British Abroad (2015 Bluecoat Press) Alcohol & England (2014 Bluecoat Press) and England Uncensored (2012 Emphasis), which was a Pictures of the Year International photography book award finalist.
Written contributions have been commissioned for the New Yorker, Telegraph magazine and a number of photography journals.
TV credits include What is it to be English? and Brexit Leavers’ Voices Burnley for Channel 4 News UK.
Dench is Co-Curator of Photo North Festival UK and OM System Ambassador.
ODESSA, UKRAINE – AUGUST 26: Two paddle in the sea wearing the Ukrainian soldier flag coat of arms trident on a military uniform on August 26, 2023 in Odessa, Ukraine. Several beaches in Ukraine’s Black Sea city port of Odessa were officially reopened for swimming for the first time since the start of the Russian invasion, bathing remained banned during air raid alerts, an Anti-mine net was placed in between two piers to prevent swimmers encountering shallow-water mines many of which were dislodged by flood waters from the destruction of Kakhovka dam under control of the Russian military. The opening of the beaches has been a welcome respite from the tensions of war. (Photo by Peter Dench/Getty Images)
© Peter Dench
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