Portrait & Campaign Photographer.

David Hevey – photography campaigns and portraits about the way we live now.

David Hevey is an award-winning, critically-acclaimed and innovative portrait and campaign photographer. David shoots portraits and campaigns for the BBC, United Nations, Time Life, JRF and many others. His campaigns have been profiled on the BBC, Channel4 and reviewed in spreads in the Sunday Independent, The Guardian, Times2, the British Journal of Photography and countless other publications. His work was the subject of a BBC2 profile directed by Chris Hutchins. His retrospective at the National Media Centre was Access To Image: Photographs by David Hevey. His work is also held in the Arts Council and other collections and is featured in the seminal Photography: A Cultural History (Laurence King Publishing 2006.)

David’s photographic work is about innovative ways to show people & the way they live now. Hevey’s work explores how we see people and how they see themselves: his portraiture uses advertising techniques made rough and he takes large format photography & lighting out into social, street or hard-to-reach contexts, to create striking high-end-yet-scratch images of how both insider and outsider people figure – and how they see themselves figuring – today. This is based on the human principle that people are big, no matter how small society sees them.

David’s previous clients include a huge range from Time Life to LA Movieline (shooting portraits of Helena Bonham Carter & Philip Ridley), to BBC billboard campaigns: he has exhibited widely (Bluecoats Gallery, The Baltic, etc.) and had a retrospective of his work at the National Media Centre, Bradford, entitled Access To Image: Photographs by David Hevey. His photo-book The Creatures Time Forgot (Routledge) was a set-text in UK and US universities. His photographic installation, Giants, was launched at London’s City Hall by the London mayor and toured to venues including Brussels and the Scottish Parliament.

The photographic campaigns and portraiture by David Hevey includes:

  • Celebrity portraits by David Hevey

    PHILIP RIDLEY, writer, LA Movieline

  • Celebrity portraits by David Hevey

    HELENA BONHAM CARTER, actress, LA Movieline

  • Shooting For Clients To Inspire Change

    Campaigns Around People Who Want To Change The World

    For clients, David Hevey creates and delivers photographic campaigns to influence society and inspire change, with these campaigns going out in the hundreds of thousands of units. In these campaigns, David is often creative director, photographer and copy-writer.

    David Hevey, Photographer/Creative Director.

  • Photographic poster campaigns

    Beyond The Barriers

    JRF, Unison et al.

    Poster campaign/postcard/t-shirt/hoardings/viral and other platforms.

    “Among the most sustainably demanded long-term outputs of JRF projects”.

    A 6 poster, 6 postcard-set, reprinted many times, with over 100,000 sets going out in the UK and abroad, with further versioning on billboards, t-shirts, mugs, etc. Distributed in their tens of thousands across platforms, this was the landmark awareness campaign about access and barriers.

    David Hevey: Creative director/writer/photographer.

  • Campaign photography

    Unison’s Cuts Hurt Me campaign, portraits and blogs by David Hevey

    Testimonies from those cut down in Cuts UK Grim Britain.

    Online portraiture and blogs

    David Hevey: Creative director/photographer/copy-writer.

  • Political portraits

    The Shifting Sands of HIV: three portraits of Gerry, by David Hevey

    Clients: various.

  • BSL Sign Portraits by David Hevey.

    London International Festival of Theatre

    Portraits of BSL users, for the London International Festival of Theatre.

  • Urban-people Portraits By David Hevey.

    Photograph The City Scape

  • Portraits by David Hevey.

    Portraits from the ex-offenders hostel

  • Photographs by David Hevey

    Portraits of love/Clair & Geraldine – in black and white, in-colour, in love

  • Publicity stills shot by David Hevey

    Portraits of street-power: private eyes & justice at a price

    Shot as publicity stills for David Hevey’s BBC Modern Times documentary: Ten Thousand Private Eyes.

  • Publicity stills shot by David Hevey

    Portraits about peace of mind, death and the other side in The Mystics

    Shot as publicity stills for David Hevey’s BBC Modern Times documentary: The Mystics.