Dean Chalkley

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Dean Chalkley Biography

Dean Chalkley (born 2 April 1968) is a British photographer from Southend-on-Sea.

Towards the late 1980s, acid house coincided with his discovery of photography, although initially after leaving school his interest had been in Fashion, especially the type influenced by music. He trained for and became a bespoke trouser maker for a couple of years but on realising the debt involved in setting up shop, he decided to become a civil servant and remained working as one for seven years.

It was the 1980s, the time of the mod revival. He describes himself as having been “…a hardened mod, totally into scooters, dressing flamboyantly, in cravats and so on.”

It was during Chalkley’s Degree that he first starting shooting for Dazed & Confused, the first assignment being to shoot Helen Chadwick. This was when it was still based in Brewer Street; and under the founding editors Jefferson Hack and John Rankin Waddell, as well as Art Director Mark Saunders. With his first spotlight feature on his photography in issue 13 which was followed by Chalkley’s coverage of bands such as Solar Race in issue 17, Darren Almond in 1997, Angus Farhurst and many more YBA for Issue 34 and beyond including Sam Taylor Wood, Mat Collshaw, Douglas Gordon, Cerith Wyn Evan, Gillian Wearing.

2000, BW & Colour, 10 mins Written and produced by Dean Chalkley, music & sound by Geir Jenssen, edited by Suki, 2000. A synopsis of film on Chalkley’s website states: “Tension, excitement and anticipation grow, images from a previous era relate to the characters and events of the present. Time continuums appear to merge as mankind and machinery axis about this strip of tarmac.”

Chalkley’s film Strip was accepted into and screened at several short film festivals around the world, and won the Kinofilm 2000 Best Experimental Short Film award at the International Short Film Festival in Manchester.

Dean started shooting for the New Musical Express magazine in 2001, with The Verve’s Richard Ashcroft his first subject. Having been introduced to the magazine by current NME Photography Director Marian Paterson, he continues to shoot covers and features for the magazine today. This has proved a successful working partnership with Dean winning the Portrait Photographer of the Year at the 2006 Picture Editors’ Awards after having submitted his portrait of Oasis singer songwriter Noel Gallagher, a shoot commissioned by the NME. He has shot amongst many others, Ian Brown, Pete Doherty, The White Stripes, Oasis, Arctic Monkeys, Kings of Leon, Amy Winehouse, Hollywood actress and singer Scarlett Johansson, American rapper and entrepreneur Jay-Z, and Simon Cowell, British entrepreneur, music executive, television producer and celebrity In 2013, Dean is still top of his game, regularly producing epic covers for the NME including Beady Eye, Daft Punk, The Vaccines, The NME Awards 2013 and Foals.

Dizzee Rascal’s Mercury Prize winning album Boy in da Corner (2003)

Written and directed by Dean Chalkley, music by Golden Globe award winner Johann Johannsson, edited by Spencer Doane, 2005

Dean’s short film Serge and accompanying exhibition of “emotive and graceful studies” of Physical Culturists premiered at The Rex cinema and bar, in June 2005.

Having shot many of today’s leading pop and rock musicians and bands led to Dean’s exhibition Now Stand Tall! Icons of the new sonic generation which opened in February 2006 at The Spitz gallery in London’s Spitalfields. In collaboration with this, he also arranged three accompanying gigs at the venue. On 27 July 2006 the exhibition went on to open at Birmingham’s Snap Galleries and remained there for several months. The exhibition is still available online and the gallery’s director Guy White continues to sell limited edition prints.

Video promo, written and directed by Dean Chalkley and Spencer Doane, edited by Spencer Doane, produced by Will Haynes, 2007

New Young Pony Club’s Fantastic Playroom (2007)

In 2008 Dean was asked to contribute some of his live images of The Horrors and Kings of Leon to the 100 Club’s permanent exhibition, curated by Emily Beaver.

In October 2009 Dean exhibited at Camden’s Roundhouse to celebrate the opening of the 2009 Electric Proms. The photographs displayed consisted of some of radio’s finest faces, commissioned by the BBC. Subjects included dj’s Lauren Laverne, Cerys Matthews, Craig Charles, Tom Robinson amongst others.

Later in the same year and again in early 2009, Dean travelled as far a field as New York City, Beijing and finally Milan to be brought together with the young stars of the contemporary music scene to advertise the re-launch of the Ray-Ban Clubmaster sunglasses. Dean documented the artists as they recorded in the studio and performed at the Ray-Ban events and exhibitions which were the results of the photographic project.

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On 4 March 2010, Dean opened a new show at The Book Club in Shoreditch, London. The exhibition title ‘The New Faces’ was thought of by none other than ‘Modfather’ Paul Weller who Dean had recently shot. The exhibition- a collection of studio photographs shot towards the end of last year, shows a group of sharply dressed young Mods, their attitude and their dance moves. The show ran until 29 April 2010. In 2012 Dean released “The New Faces: A Short Film”, which was released exclusively on Nick Knight’s curated ShowStudio.com.

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The film was made available to view online from 125 Magazine’s website in July 2011 following the short film’s premier at Bethnal Green’s Working men’s club in London, which was attended by many of the participants in the film who took to the floor after the first screening was greeted with rapturous applause Following from the films screening and online launch, as well as the publication of 16 images in 125 Magazine Young Souls was exhibited at PYMCA’s Youth Club Gallery. The Exhibition consisted of the original 16 images with some new editions, which added up to 22 in total. These went on display alongside the film Young Souls. On the night of the private view Kent Record’s Ady Croasdell, Jo Wallace, who are credited as Music Consultant’s on the film DJed alongside Donna Driscoll and Chalkley himself. The Exhibition at Youth Club Gallery ran from 21 July 2011 until 16 August 2011. Young Souls was screened at Turner Contemporary in Margate on the 28 October 2013.

On 5 April 2011 a 25-second teaser of the short film Young souls was released on Dean Chalkley’s official Vimeo. Later in April of the same year the photographic side to the project was published In 125 Magazine. This was a “study focusing on the current Burgeoning generation of young people getting into the scene.”

The cast of the film were gathered through “putting the word out” on Northern Soul community websites and forums. In January 2011, a message was posted on Dean Chalkley’s official Blog requesting”Good youthful Northern Soul Dancers to feature in a short film and photographic project”. and that the project would then be presented through 125 Magazine. A later post, by Amanda Ashed of Looks London and the Ranch Casting Company mentioned that the project would be a short film that wasn’t set out to be a “definitive story of Northern Soul” but that it “does aim to celebrate it.” And that the project had no outside funding. This point has been reiterated since by Chalkley himself, who in an interview with the British Journal of Photography, referred to the project as being a “Labour of Love”

The relaunch of Dean Chalkley’s “New Look” website in 2012 saw the inclusion of a new Fashion section, clearly displaying Dean’s extensive sartorial side. With projects and campaigns for the likes of Hush Puppies, Ray-Ban, Beatrix Ong, Levis, New Balance, The Observer, The New British and Cath Kidston.

In July 2012, Dean signed to the photographic agency, Skinny Dip.

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“It was beautifully shot. Dean is a genius photographer.” – Jonny Owens

“It was beautifully shot. Dean is a genius photographer.” – Jonny Owens

Screened at the V&A Museum London on Friday 27 September 2013 as part of its Friday Lates sessions. The film spins around the Crash Bang Wallop World of Banger Racing, a 12 minute long ode to the sport and various characters from the Spedeworth Racing Track in Aldershot. The film went on to form part of The New British App ‘Legacy’ which Launched on 4 December at the Apple flagship store in London.

To this day the photographer also continues to DJ with vinyl at several club nights, most frequently at Shake! at the boogaloo which took place at the Boogaloo bar in Highgate, London. In 2013 Dean DJ’d at Isle of Wight Festival alongside fellow Black Cat DJ Si Cheeba.

Return of the Rudeboy was created by the photographer and film-maker Dean Chalkley and the Creative Director Harris Elliott and was on show at Somerset House from 13 June 2014 until 25 August 2014. The exhibition featured over 60 portraits of notable individuals that embodied the 21st Century Rudeboy including the likes of Don Letts, Pauline Black, Gary Powell and more.

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