Colin Hampden-White

Sir Colin George Hampden-White, (born in London, 1971) is a British photographer and is a member of the Hampden family, descendant of Renn Dickson Hampden (1793 - 23 April 1868) and John Hampden (circa 1595-1643), English politician and Roundhead in the English Civil War. Colin married Caroline Natasha Howe on the 20th September 2008 at Westminster Abbey, Sir Colin and Lady Hampden-White live in London.

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Early life and work

Hampden-White's adopted parents are Colonel and Mrs Michael Hampden White and he was born in Chelsea, London. With a father in the Army the family moved home every three years including Germany and Sudan in Hampden-White's early years. He went to prep school at , Bishton Hall in Staffordshire until he was 14 and then attended Downside School. After Downside he spent three years living in Kenya before studying Quantity Surveying at Napier University in Edinburgh from 1992 - 1995 after which he worked for Johnstone Binnie Mackenzie. In 1998 he turned to photography, working at the Covershot Studio in Glasgow until the end of 1999.

Career

From 2001 - 2003 he worked for Johnstone Press, firstly with The Edinburgh Evening News and then The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday. At the end of 2003 he moved to London were he freelanced for many London newspapers including The Financial Times, The Times and The Daily Mail. Hampden-White has also worked with the BBC.

Hampden-White takes a good deal of music photography, from little known bands like the Fairies Band and up and coming bands like The Noisettes and Neutrinos to established acts such as The Scissor Sisters and Cold Play some of these pictures can be seen on his website and have been published in various publications. He has also taken stills for films using the By Line name of Colin White. Films include; The Recording, which was nominated for Best Short Film Director - Annetta Laufer and for Best Cinematography - Peter Talbot at The Kodak Short Film Competition 2007 and Reverb both in 2007. In 2008 he took stills for A short film called Blackout by Director Tawfiq-Ul-Haq and was shown at the East End Film Festival in London.

In 2008 Hampden-White left newspaper work and sought the representation of a gallery and in May 2008 The Rebecca Hossack Gallery began to represent him. He is also a contributing feature writer and photographer for Every Model Magazine. Hampden-White is now working on a project called Facing East, which is run by Art Force at the Bromley by Bow Centre in east London. The project is collecting stories and objects relating to those stories from people with strong connections to the local area, Hampden-White's involvement in the project is to take portraits of the participants and their objects. These objects and portraits are to be exhibited in The Millers House on Three Mills Island in the east end of London and The Charlotte Street Gallery in the West End of London

Recent exhibitions include the Cork Street Open Exhibition, which ran from the 31st of July to the 9th if August at the Cork Street Gallery London.
Colin Hampden-White exhibited as part of E17 Art Trail in Walthamstow, London from the 4th to the 16th of September 2008.

Examples of exhibited and published work

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