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Richard Beaven is a British photographer based in the Hudson Valley of New York, where he works on commissioned stories and self-initiated portrait series. His long-term approach, exploring the Upper Hudson Valley, is to create a sense of place and spirit by documenting people, communities and cultures.
Beaven’s photographs have featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Observer, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, NBC News, Terra Mater Magazine, NPR, Bloomberg Businessweek, De Zeit, BBC News, The Kodak Podcast and have been exhibited at The International Center of Photography (NY), The National Portrait Gallery (London) and Head On Photo Festival (Sydney).
His portrait work has been recognised as a finalist in the Taylor Wessing/National Portrait Gallery Prize (London), National Press Photographers Association /Best of Photojournalism Awards, American Photography 33 book, The Royal Photographic Society Exhibition 2022, 2023 and American Photography 39 in 2023.
In 2020 Beaven received a Furthermore grant for his book, All Of Us: Portraits of an American Bicentennial published by Daylight Books.