Holden Richards

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Holden Richards is a traditional large format film photographer and native North Carolinian currently residing in Hillsborough. Inspired by primarily by walking the creeks and rivers of Orange, and Durham Counties, these locations and subjects predominate his photographic work. He has studied view camera (with Jim Stone) and historic process printing (Jill Enfield) at Penland School of Crafts.

He is a current Getty Images Contributor who has had his work featured print, including Jill Enfield's Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes, The Hand Magazine, and The Oxford American as well as appearing in corporate advertising campaigns through Getty. His recent monograph Riverwalk is included in the archives of the University of North Carolina and Duke University. His darkroom work has been included in The Cassilhaus Collection and the public collections of the cities of Raleigh and Durham, NC among others.

Lately I am using only large format cameras, mostly older than 100 years old, and contact printing the results in the traditional wet darkroom on select European papers as well as making Kallitypes, Salt Prints, Albumen, and other alternative prints.



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Praise for Riverwalk


It all looks wonderful, like a piece of chamber music.
--Sean Kernan

It’s a serious act of looking—disclosing a landscape that belongs only to obsessives like Richards and Thoreau—its shapes, tranquilities, energies, weathers, moods, roots, leaves and shadows, and above all, the river. Beautiful work.
--John Rosenthal









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