ABOUT PAUL HANDS

BA Hons.

Hi, nice to meet you, kind of!

This isn't exactly a meeting but hopefully you'll get a good idea of who I am through my website.

My professional photographic life began in my mid thirties. I’d been playing with hobby level photography all of my life but only took it seriously when I lost my job through redundancy and returned to college to retrain, doing a level 3 course at North Warwickshire & Hinckley College, which I loved that much that I stayed on and completed a HND in Photography and by the end of that course, I was well and truly hooked. So I went on to De Montfort University to study both Photography and Video for my BA Hons degree.

I instantly became addicted to documentary photography, street photography and landscape photography. I didn’t realise at the time that studying these three amazing genres would give me the skills to go on and become a self employed photographer. I’ve gone on to win awards and now have an 11 year career of working with some of the best and biggest names in the UK like HRH Earl of Wessex Prince Edward, Sir David Attenborough and I’ve worked for amazing organisations like Diabetes UK, Cineworld and HM Treasury.

I now create documentary wedding photography and films, also for commercial and local businesses as well as produce my own artwork and have amassed a collection of well over ten thousand photographs!

I’m highly skilled in many areas of the art form and choose to now focus my energy on teaching photography workshops and classes privately based from my studio, taking clients out on adventures with their cameras and bringing them back with an abundance of new skills and creative photographs.

If you’d like more information about me, then please get in touch.

Thanks

Paul