My wife was diagnosed with breast cancer in November of 2019, six weeks after our wedding. Her chemotherapy took place whilst the coronavirus was taking hold in the UK. Our self-isolation was particularly strict due to her compromised immune system and consequently, friends and relatives were unable to visit. Gifts of delivered flowers arrived frequently with written cards of kind messages of support. Words that frequently appeared that resonated with me were ‘here for you’.
I photographed some of these flowers as a personal project in a home studio using available window light.
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
