Dr Derek Hunter
Technical Notes
Photographic Qualifications
* Associateship of
the Royal Photographic Society - 1962
* Associateship of
the Institute of British Photographers - 1964
* Final Examination
of the Institute of British Photographers - 1964
* City and Guilds of London Institute Full Technological Certificate in Photography - 1965
Academic Qualifications
* BA
(Open University) in Science and Technology - 1975
* MA (London University) in Manpower Studies - 1978
* PhD (Henley/Brunel University) in Management - 1985
* MA (London University) in Manpower Studies - 1978
* PhD (Henley/Brunel University) in Management - 1985
Exhibitions
* Royal
Photographic Society 150th Anniversary Exhibition -
Exeter 2003
* ‘Chagford at Work’ - Chagford 2005
* Royal Photographic Society Member’s Exhibition - Plymouth 2006
* ‘Chagford - A Very Special Place’ - Chagford 2007
* ’Shadows in Time’ - Plymouth 2009
* ‘Chagford Parish - Images of a Devon Town’ - Chagford 2009
* ‘Capturing the Moment’ - Chagford 2012
* ‘Through the Looking Glass’ - Chagford 2014
* ‘People and Places’ - Plymouth 2015
* ‘ Things Seen’ - Chagford 2016
* ‘ A Sliver of Time’ - Chagford 2018
* ‘ All the World’s a Stage’ - Chagford 2020 (Planned)
* ‘Chagford at Work’ - Chagford 2005
* Royal Photographic Society Member’s Exhibition - Plymouth 2006
* ‘Chagford - A Very Special Place’ - Chagford 2007
* ’Shadows in Time’ - Plymouth 2009
* ‘Chagford Parish - Images of a Devon Town’ - Chagford 2009
* ‘Capturing the Moment’ - Chagford 2012
* ‘Through the Looking Glass’ - Chagford 2014
* ‘People and Places’ - Plymouth 2015
* ‘ Things Seen’ - Chagford 2016
* ‘ A Sliver of Time’ - Chagford 2018
* ‘ All the World’s a Stage’ - Chagford 2020 (Planned)
Having developed an interest in
photography in my teens, I later undertook formal
study of the subject at the Harrow School of
Photography majoring in scientific and technical
applications of photography. For three decades I
worked for the Kodak organisation teaching applied
photography across a number of market segments to both
customers and staff in the Kodak School of Industrial
and Engineering Radiography, the Kodak Photographic
School and the Kodak Marketing Education Centre.
Additionally, for a number of years, I taught evening
classes in photography at the Harrow School of
Photography and acted as an examiner for both City
& Guilds of London Institute and the Institute of
British Photographers. I then decided on a
complete change of direction in my working life,
resigned from Kodak and spent the following ten years
in academe working as a tutor/lecturer teaching on MBA
programmes in the Open University Business School and,
most recently, the University of Exeter
On finally reaching ‘official’ retiring age I returned to photography and set up a darkroom at home which led to my mounting a number of film-based exhibitions both locally and regionally. As the digital revolution gathered pace in the late 2000s and photographic quality reached a level with which I was comfortable, I decided it was time to move to the new imaging technology. I closed my darkroom at the end of 2009 and now work exclusively in this medium.
My interests in photography are broad-based - I photograph whatever quickens my pulse! In recent years I have developed a particular interest in capturing everyday life and the things I see around me as they happen, those activities which so often go unnoticed because they are commonplace. I retain a passion for black and white where, by eliminating the distraction of colour and reducing the image to tones and contrasts, I can draw the viewer’s attention to the key elements in the photograph and the story it tells. At the same time I believe that some subjects record more successfully in colour so, when appropriate, I will present images that way.
On finally reaching ‘official’ retiring age I returned to photography and set up a darkroom at home which led to my mounting a number of film-based exhibitions both locally and regionally. As the digital revolution gathered pace in the late 2000s and photographic quality reached a level with which I was comfortable, I decided it was time to move to the new imaging technology. I closed my darkroom at the end of 2009 and now work exclusively in this medium.
My interests in photography are broad-based - I photograph whatever quickens my pulse! In recent years I have developed a particular interest in capturing everyday life and the things I see around me as they happen, those activities which so often go unnoticed because they are commonplace. I retain a passion for black and white where, by eliminating the distraction of colour and reducing the image to tones and contrasts, I can draw the viewer’s attention to the key elements in the photograph and the story it tells. At the same time I believe that some subjects record more successfully in colour so, when appropriate, I will present images that way.
I work exclusively with Leica digital
cameras using a variety of lenses both fixed focal
length and zoom. All images are recorded in RAW (DNG)
format and processed, prior to printing, in an
AppleMac computer via Lightroom Version 6.8.
Monochrome images are achieved using a Nik software
plug-in programme Silver Efex Pro 2. Prints are
produced on an Epson R2880 A3+ printer on Hahnemule
paper and mounted using acid-free archival board.
