Richard Allenby-Pratt is a Dubai-based photographer, specialising in producing advertising images ‘during the day’, and documentary pictures ‘by night’. Previously based in London, where he was awarded a silver for his personal still-life work at the London Association of Photographers 16th awards, he relocated to the Middle East in 2000. A number of significant accolades have followed, including Middle East Advertising photographer of the year in 2002, again for a still life campaign; The Al Thani award for landscape photography in 2004; the EPICA advertising awards for his Volkswagen Beetle campaign in 2003; and an honourable mention in the American International Photography Awards in 2005 for his documentary project on life after the tsunami in Sri Lanka. Although still shooting general design and advertising photography, he is now recognised as the Middle East’s foremost car advertising specialist. In 2004 he was a partner in the establishment of the award-winning documentary image library ‘arabianeye’, specialising in Arabic, Middle Eastern and Islamic subjects; and is now represented by them internationally, along with their partners, Panos in London, Redux in New York and REA in Paris, for his documentary work. He is based at The Studio; Dubai’s top stills-shooting facility and, in recent years, has been instrumental in setting up the Middle East Professional Photographers group, in an attempt to contribute to the improvement of the commercial industry in this region.
He is equally committed to the effectiveness of daytime lies, and the insightfulness of night-time honesty.
 
 
telephone +971 506 511 410 richard@allenby-pratt.com