Kiran Ridley
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Kiran is an award winning photographer based in Paris and working throughout Europe and Asia, concentrating on news and social political issues. Fascinated by people and natural curious by the human condition, Kiran is passionate in documenting ongoing situations throughout the world, capturing the human dynamic, trying to seize the unexpected in a succession of unique moments, whether in our hopes and dreams, or our anger. His work has is published throughout the world including The Sunday Times Magazine, The Times and The Financial Times, The LA Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Le Figaro, Le Point, Welt, El Pais, Forbes, Observer and Guardian newspapers, Time, Spiegel, Economist Magazine, GQ, Le Point and Conde Nast amongst many others. Most recently he has won the Kolga Tbilisi Reportage Award and the TAPSA Scholarship for his reportage on Hong Kong Pro Democracy movement and first prize in the Editorial News Category of the 2019 ND Awards for his work on the Gilet Jaune movement in France. He has been a finalist in the Association of Photographers ‘Document’ Awards, Highly Commended in the Ian Parry Award and finalist for 'Young Photographer of the Year' in the 'Picture Editor’s Awards'. He has also been nominated and finalist in two major international awards - The Observer Hodge Award and The Tom Webster Award. This year his work also featured in the BPPA’s 2019 Assignments exhibition, touring the UK. Based in Paris, his work is distributed with leading photographic agencies Getty Images (Europe) and Polaris Images in the United States. |