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.

Recent Activity

• Silver Gelatin print "Riverwalk, Twilight" Selected for the North Carolina Artists Exhibition, Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, NC September 29 - November 17, 2024
• Kallitypes featured in "Echoes of the Past", The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC August 1-31 2024
• Featured Artist Exhibit: "Palustris: Nature's Pallette" Arts Council of Moore County April 1-31 2024
• Exhibit "Eno: Past, Present, Future" for Town of Chapel Hill March 1-30 2024
• Exhibit "Riverwalk: New Work, New Prints" at The Center for American Photographers, Wilson, NC October 1-31 2023
• Guest Artist Seminar "Large Format" SPLASH Arts Festival, Elizabeth City, NC October 4-9 2023
• Exhibit of "Riverwalk: A Decade Along the Eno" SPLASH Arts Festival, Elizabeth City, NC October 4-9 2023
• Selected for exhibit "10 NC Photographers" at Green Hill Center for Art, Greensboro, NC July-November 2023
• Juried into Analog Forever Magazine exhibit "The Natural World", March 2023
• "Eno-After the Rain" included in "Landscape" for Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, February-March 2023
• Riverwalk photographs featured in Walter Magazine, January 2023
• Selected for "Black and White" South x Southeast Photo Gallery, January 2023
• Selected for Penland School of Crafts Winter Studio in Photography, January 2023
• Darkroom print of "Fews Ford II" added to the City of Durham Permanent Collection, December 2022
• Exhibition of Seeing in Square as part of the Vivian Maier Research Project, October 2022
• Exhibit of Riverwalk: A Decade Along the Eno photographs at the Arts Center, Carrboro, NC, October 2022
• Exhibit of Riverwalk: A Decade Along the Eno photographs at the Hugh Mangum Photo Museum, West Point on the Eno, Jun-July 2022
• Riverwalk: A Decade Along the Eno Monograph accepted into the Archive of Documentary Arts, Rubenstein Library at Duke University, June 2022
• Traditionally printed a previously unseen roll of Vivian Maier Negatives for exhibition by The Vivian Maier Research Project, April 2022
• Photograph "Riverwalk, Twilight" curated into sale for Your Daily Photograph, March 2022
• Riverwalk: A Decade Along the Eno Paperback Edition Release, February 27, 2022
• Silver Gelatin Print of "Riverwalk: Twilight" included in the Cassilhaus Collection, February 2022
• Riverwalk: A Decade Along the Eno Monograph accepted into the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
• Exhibit of Riverwalk: A Decade Along the Eno photographs at the North Carolina Botanical Garden, Jan-Feb 2022
• Exhibit of Riverwalk: A Decade Along the Eno photographs at Through This Lens Durham, November 2021
• Release of Limited Edition Monograph Riverwalk: A Decade Along the Eno, November 2021
• Artists Gallery for Holden Richards debuts on Rfotofolio.com, July 2021
• Interview and Portfolio feature on Rfotofolio, July 2021
• Photograph "Eno Fog and Rain" curated into sale for YourDailyPhotograph.com, June 2021
• Riverwalk Portfolio featured in Southern Cultures Magazine January Edition with online gallery, January 2021
• Penland School of Crafts Winter Studio in Photography, January 2021
• Portfolio "Riverwalk" selected for RFOTOFOLIO 2020 by judges Jennifer Schlesinger and Paula Tognarelli, November 2020
• Selected for "Unique: Alternative Process 2020" at A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas, November 2020
• Juried into "Shape Shift" group exhibition of contributors to The Hand Magazine at Through This Lens Gallery, July, 2020
• Selected for inclusion in "Alternative Processes" at SE Center for Photography, Greenville, NC, March 2020
• Image selected for inclusion in "Your Favorite Photo 2019" online exhibit for LENSCRATCH, January 2020
• Selected for Penland School of Crafts Winter Residency in Photography, January 2020
• Kallitypes selected for inclusion in Jill Enfield's Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes, Publication 2020
• Selected for inclusion in "Process" a group artist exhibition at the Durham Arts Council, November 2019
• Two images selected for inclusion in "Extending Tradition", Lightbox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, Oregon, August 2019
• Two images selected for inclusion in "Merge", Alamance Arts Gallery, Graham NC , August 2019
• Three kallitypes selected for a full page layout in The Hand Magazine, a magazine for photographic and printing arts, July 2019
• Juried into Penland School of Crafts Winter Residency in Photography, January 2019
• "The Field Camera" split exhibit with Tom Rankin from CDS, Horse and Buggy Press, Durham NC, October 2018
• "Analog" Alternative Photography Process exhibit, Green Hill Center for Art, Greensboro NC, August 2018
• "One-Eno" exhibit at the Hugh Mangum Musem of Photography, Durham NC, June 2018
• "Black and White" exhibit at Block Gallery, Raleigh NC, April 2018
• "Silver and Iron" exhibit at Through this Lens Gallery, Durham NC, February, 2018
• Selected for the 10th Biennial of the Photographic Image Exhibit of East Carolina University, 2017
• Kallitype "Old 86" selected for inclusion in Looking Glass Magazine January, 2017
• Selected for the Biennial Exhibit of the Greenville, North Carolina Museum of Art, 2016
• Selected for Penland School of Crafts Winter Residency in Photography, January 2016
• Participated in portfolio review as part of CLICK photography 2015. Reviewers: Alexa Dilworth: Center for Documentary Studies, Roger Manley: Director of the Gregg Museum of Art, Linda Johnson Dougherty: Curator of Contemporary Art at the North Carolina Museum of Art
• Selected for Penland School of Crafts Winter Residency in Photography, January 2015
• Work Juried into "Pixel and Grain" Exhibition October, 2014, Juror Jeff Whetsone
• Studied View Camera at Penland School of Crafts June 2014 with Jim Stone
• Selected for the North Carolina Artists Exhibition, Progress Energy Center for Performing Arts, March 2014
• Block Gallery Exhibition, Raleigh Arts Commission juried exhibition, September, 2013
• Work featured in the Oxford American Magazine June, 2013
• Inclusion in the juried show and sale "Art of the Auction" North Carolina Museum of Art, May 2013
• More images selected as Getty Photography Contributor (ongoing), 2012
• Inclusion in the juried show and sale "Art of the Auction" North Carolina Museum of Art, May 2011
• Published on CityPulse's Citylab website 2012 (9 Images)
• Published in The International Analogue Photographic Society Book, "Unlimited Grain - Landscapes" 2011 (2 Images)
• Inclusion in "Hopscotch & Sparkcon Present: Moment’s Note, photographs of North Carolina music"
• Finalist in Black + White Photography Magazine "Photographer of the Year" Landscape category
• Solo Gallery Showing,"Time + Light" Raleigh Times Gallery - Raleigh, August 2011
• "Scope, The North Carolina Landscape," Visual Art Exchange juried exhibition, Raleigh, NC, 2011. Juried by Allie Pitcher, Special Curatorial Assistant, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
• Inclusion in the juried show and sale "Art of the Auction" North Carolina Museum of Art, May 2011
• Solo Gallery Showing,"Work From the Center" Arts Center, Carrboro, April 2011
• "21st Annual N.E.W. Show" (never exhibited works), Visual Art Exchange juried exhibition, Raleigh, NC, 2010. Juried by Steven Matijcio the curator of contemporary art at the SECCA.
• Work featured in the premier edition ART/SEE Magazine 2010
• Selected as a Getty Photography Contributor, 2010
• "Scope, The North Carolina Landscape," Visual Art Exchange juried exhibition, Raleigh, NC, 2010. Juried by Jonathan Stuhlman, the Curator of American Art at the Mint Museum of Art. (Received Merit Award)
• Solo Showing Crook's Corner Chapel Hill 2009
• Featured in PLATEFORM magazine, Vol. 1 Issue 3. France, 2009
• Inclusion in the "Picturing Wake: Our County in Photographs" for the Wake County Libraries 2009
• "50 Photographers 50 Images" at Crocker's Mark Gallery Juried by Dr. Richard Zakia, Photography Professor Emeritus at Rochester Institute of Technology, 2008