Richard Boll graduated with a BA (Hons) degree in Photography from the Edinburgh College of Art in 1999. He is now working full time as an editorial and advertising photographer in London. He is represented by the London agency Playground Photographic, supplies images to the Getty image library and is also represented by the Focus Gallery of Contemporary Photography in Cape Town. Awards and commissions include first place in the Audi/Next Level International Award for Contemporary Photography in 2004, first prize in the 2006 National Portrait Gallery Photographic Prize, and a commission from the National Portrait Gallery to photograph Sir David Attenborough in 2007. In 2011 he was a selected winner of the Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward Exchange, won the sponsors prize in the Renaissance Photography Award, and received honourable mentions in the Prix de la Photographie Paris Photography Competition and the International Photography Awards Annual Competition.

2011 Selected winner of the Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward Exchange

2011 Honourable mention in the International Photography Annual Awards

2011 Honourable mention in the Prix de la Photographie Paris

2011 Sponsors Prize in the Renaissance Photography Awards

2010 Invited to join Troika Editions, showcase of Contemporary Photography

2008 Short-listed for The London International Creative Competition (LICC)

2007 Selected for the National Portrait Gallery Photographic Prize Exhibition

2007 Commission to take a portrait of David Attenborough for the National Portrait Gallery, London

2006 Winner of The National Portrait Gallery Photographic Prize

2004 Winner of the Audi/ Next Level Award for contemporary photography