About
Lee Gavin is a multi skilled photographer, specialising in a range of portraiture, editorial and documentary.
Lee's commissioned work typically sees him capturing people, their pets and events as well as collaborating with other creatives and professionals across different sectors. He produces portraiture that seeks to document the subject their personality, process or products.
His personal projects concentrate on capturing portraiture of the inhabitants of urban environments. He sets about to document people and the spaces they occupy. The themes of the home, identity and taste run throughout his work.
Educated to Masters level in Sociology and Photography, Lee's work is underpinned with thorough research that results in an awareness of the works context and outcomes that are intentional and deliberate.
He is skilled at shooting both analogue and digital, in the studio or on location. Specialising in, but not limited to, analogue techniques, Lee enjoys the experimental and finite nature of analogue photography, which allows for accidents and imperfection that he feels adds unique character to each photograph.
Exhibitions and Publications
Free Range - Exhibition - London - 2009
Why I shoot Film - Published - Emulsive - 2018
Skills Can Be Taught, Attitude Has To Be Learnt - Published - Creative Assembly - 2018
[City Stories] - Exhibition - London - 2018
[City Stories] - Exhibition - Brighton - 2018
WerkHaus Zine - Published - WorkHorse Collective - 2020
Print Swap - Exhibition - LAURENT Gallery Australia - 2021
Haymaker Zine - Published - Young Dum Lovers - 2021
WorkHorse Collective
Lee is a founding member of the WorkHorse Collective. They are multi-disciplinary urban photographers who met at Goldsmiths College. They apply a sociological lens in order to interrogate and produce substantive, purposeful work.
With different backgrounds and interests, what unites the three is a considered approach to making work about urban cultures and places. Kat Huber, Becky Morris-Knight and Lee Gavin use distinct methods, working across digital/analogue photographic practices. Each brings their own individual interests and visual approaches to the subject of contemporary cities and citizens.
WorkHorse also produce WerkHaus Zine, which invites collaboration from across across the art, media and academic disciplines.