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BORN : England, Pennines. Lancashire side someplace between Barnsley and Bolton...................................................... ..........................................................AC CENT:Sort of Mid Atlantic Boston USA style/UK English with bits of Lancashire, Midlands and Nordic thrown in for good measure. ............................................................ ..........................................................ET HNIC ORIGIN : I look more Danish then English and most of the Renfrey’s in this world either live in Cornwall or Australia. I also have a Celt side which explains the long arms and my DNA reads Celtic Norse ............................................................ ...........................................................C URRENTLY BASED: UK, West Midlands mostly Birmingham Wolverhampton............................................... ............................................................ AREAS OF ACTIVITY : UK, North Western Europe,Scandinavia and North America..................................................... ...........................................................M AIN TOPICS COVERED : Fashion, Portraits and Music( from unsigned singer songwriters to major bands and musicians )........................................................... ................................................. OTHER TOPICS COVERED : Fashion Bridal( Not weddings ).Model Portfolios. The occasional travel log and the odd newspaper and magazine assignments................................................. ........................................................PHOT OS PUBLISHED : Coldplay, Skunk Anansie, Neil Young, Alice Cooper, Bjork,David Bowie,Massive Attack, Snow Patrol,Kat Bjelland, Alanis Morisette, The Killers,Heather Nova,KT Tunstall etc etc......................................................... .........................................................HOW I WORK : I mostly work with available light using a light meter and grey card but I will use flash heads for studio work or when need arises. I rarely use a flashgun and I still use film on assignments mostly for black and white photos as I feel this gives a different image that digital somehow fails to capture. To that end I use Fuji Neopan 1600, Illford XP2, Illford Delta 400 or Illford HP5 all depending upon the available light . I mostly use digital for colour...................................................... .........................................................PHO TOGRAPHIC STYLE: My photographic style is a sort of mix between impressionism and expressionism only heavily influenced with the Spanish world of El Greco, Miro and Picasso and also by Japanese art, especially in the use of flat perspectives washed out faces and lavish use of contrasting block colours.Basically it is a search consciously or unconsciously almost a longing for something beautiful, mysterious and forever beyond reach.All of the music photos have been taken at live events either gigs, sound checks or rehearsals.I will also distort and abstract the image in the camera while taking a photo and these are left as seen only they will appear as being photoshoped but it is not always the case. I can sometimes be found wearing a headband at gigs as they help to keep my hair from falling into my eyes and the cloth also helps stop the moisture from building up on the camera back plate and from fogging the eye piece.I do not believe in posing shots and I normally work in a free form style.My website can be found at.........................................www.davidrenfrey. com