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Michael Wharley Portrait & Advertising Photographer
Creatives // Creation

Creatives // Creation

An artist, an object that speaks to their work, a photographer. 30 minutes, 1 portrait. A colourful, playful project exploring the spaces between creator & creation.

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In a Green Shade: The English & Nature

In a Green Shade: The English & Nature

An ongoing environmental portrait project, taking an affectionate look at the English & Nature, exploring & celebrating our diverse connections to this green & pleasant land.

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Free Flow ‘Fro

Free Flow ‘Fro

Portraits celebrating afro-textured hair in all its nuanced variety, capturing a diverse British community of Black and Mixed Race subjects from all professions and walks of life in the UK with aspirational colour and energy.

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These Four Walls

These Four Walls

As the UK went into Corona lockdown in March 2020, all shoots were cancelled, and the borders of life shrank to a few rooms and a daily walk. I did something unusual for me, and made home my subject.

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Cold Water Swimmers of Brockwell Lido

Cold Water Swimmers of Brockwell Lido

A project embracing my love of outdoor swimming: dipping a toe in the freezing waters of Brockwell Lido with a series of environmental portraits of the cold water swimmers of this South London Institution.

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The Attitudes

The Attitudes

Recreating & reimagining classic acting Attitudes in an award-winning dramatic portrait project drawing on my previous career for the benefit of charity ‘Acting for Others.’

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Working India

Working India

A series of environmental portraits documenting the working lives of everyday people in India, shot at a variety of locations in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Kolkata and Darjeeling/Himalayas.

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Making Spaces

Making Spaces

A series of environmental working portraits featuring artists based at Make Space Studios, London – from puppet makers to screen printers, sculptors to painter – I dropped by to explore their working worlds.

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The Midnight Hour

The Midnight Hour

Creating location-like shots taken in the studio. Portraits filled with intensity, uncertainty and regret.

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The River Told Me

The River Told Me

A New Zealand landscape shaped by water – a story written on the face of the land by the flow of water from glacier top to river mouth.

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