Self portrait. Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong, 2024

Dominic Walker (b. 1991) is a photographer and architect from Manchester, United Kingdom.

In his photographic work, Dominic seeks to explore the emotional connotations of images that extend beyond the physical spaces that they portray. He is interested in the way storytelling frames our experiences of the built and natural world, and the emotional character of light, shadow, and objects within everyday scenes that may otherwise appear banal.

His photographs are attempts to describe the experiential and emotional readings of place, and sit somewhere between documentary work and narrative driven staged photography.

Over time he has started to photograph in a deliberately slow fashion. Scenes are captured as long exposures made with a studio camera, shooting 6x7 medium format colour negative film. There is a focus on colour, and on light and shadow, in order to set a mood, inspired by cinema and oil painting. Long exposures capture light and movement in a way that takes them away from what the eye experiences.

Dominic has travelled extensively, and has documented cities and communities in India, Jordan, Egypt, Georgia, China, Vietnam and Myanmar.

While travelling, his work has documented building typologies and communities at the thresholds of the urban and the rural, and those that are rapidly transforming as the world becomes more globalised. They capture moments of change in cities, of accretion and decay, and the lives entangled within them.

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Prints are available upon request.

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dominic.walker91@gmail.com

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