This project consists of a set of minimalist photographic prints representing snow covered
mountains punctuated by coloured posts. The posts hold relatively little significance in
clear sunlight but become life-saving in whiteouts. The taking of the photographs was
weather dependent, and low visibility and cloud cover were required.
The images can be visually confusing, echoing the sensation of being in a blizzard when
orientation and balance can be compromised. The eye is led around the images in a
comparable way to somebody being led down a mountain.
My goal with these images looks as much to the history of minimalist painting as it does
to contemporary photography. The project is to some extent an investigation into
minimalism- pushing the limits of how little can be present in a photograph and it still
“function” as an effective image.
Richard Boll is an editorial and advertising photographer, carrying out assignments in London and internationally. Clients include Emirates Airlines, Sony, Zeiss, Land Rover, Rolls Royce and M & C Saatchi Worldwide.He graduated with a BA (Hons) degree in Photography from Edinburgh College of Art in 1999, and gained an MA with distinction from the University of Brighton in 2016.Awards include first place in the Taylor Wessing National Portrait Gallery Prize and the Audi/ Next Level Award for contemporary photography, and he was a selected winner in the Magenta Flash Forward competition.
Awards 2020 Moscow International Photography Awards, Silver medal for Here For You
2019 Minimalist Photography Awards, Honorable mention for Six Degrees of Freedom
2016 Photoworks Award Winner for Six Degrees of Freedom
2016 Exhibitor in The International Festival of Photography, Shanxi Province, China
2015 The International Photography Awards, Honourable Mention for Form & Void
2015 The PX3 Photography Awards, Honourable mention for Form & Void
2014 The International Photography Awards, Honourable mention for Looking Towards France
2014 The PX3 Photography Awards, Honourable mentions for Nothing Happens and Pulchritudo Vulgaris (The Beauty of the Ordinary)
2013 The International Photography Awards, Fine Art category finalist for Nothing Happens and three honorable mentions for 99 Woolworths
2012 The International Photography Awards, Two honorable mentions for portraiture
2011 International Photography Awards, Honourable mention for Death in the Afternoon
2008 London International Creative Competition, Shortlisted for Studio II
2011 Renaissance Photography Competition, Sponsor’s Prize
2011 Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Exchange, Selected winner
2007 The National Portrait Gallery Photographic Prize, Finalist
2007 A National Portrait Gallery commissioned portrait of Sir David Attenborough
2006 First place in The National Portrait Gallery Photographic Prize
2004 First place in The Audi/Next Level International Award for Contemporary photography
