Happy Birthday Richard Learoyd! Richard Learoyd was born in Nelson, Lancashire in 1966. He studied Fine Art Photography at the Glasgow School of Art, where he was a student of Professor Thomas Joshua Cooper. He taught photography at Bournemouth and Poole college of Art and Design from 1994 to 1997 and worked as a commercial photographer in London until 2002. Learoyd’s photographic work, characterised by the use of a room-sized camera obscura, was first exhibited in London in 2007. In 2015, Aperture released Richard Learoyd: Day for Night, a comprehensive book of colour portraits and studio work, and concurrently, The Victoria & Albert Museum in London mounted his first solo museum exhibition, Dark Mirror. Learoyd’s work is included in the collections of The Getty, Tate, Centre Pompidou, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum, National Gallery of Canada, and Yale University Art Gallery, among others. This beautiful black and white triptych is on show as part of our current exhibition 'Flowers'. This is the first time they have been displayed to the public. Please enquire for availability and pricing. Image: Black and White Poppy Triptych, 2022 © Richard Learoyd #HappyBirthday #RichardLearoyd #RichardLearoydPhotography #HamiltonsGallery