About me
I've been practising photography for over 30 years, having been introduced to it by my girlfriend (now wife), who bravely loaned a total novice an expensive Canon camera for a trekking holiday in Zaire.
The camera survived, and I was hooked.
After a career in the corporate world, (from which photography was the escape - without it I probably would have been a wreck), in 2013 I quit to concentrate on photography full-time. A chance meeting at the YouNique Wellbeing Centre in Bexhill with the lovely proprietor, Carol, led to my offering photographic tuition as part of the YouNique Creative strand. I haven't looked back.
During the COVID lockdown I took the opportunity to expand my photographic range into portraits. I've been inspired by the work of the photographer Rankin who showed how portraiture can be a powerful boost to self esteem, (an antidote to Instagram in my opinion), and the work of the classic portraitists such as Irving Penn, George Hurrell, C.S.Bull and Horst P.Horst
D Charles Mason: Pretentious – Moi?
Those people that know me, just call me “Dave”, but it just so happens there are a few “Dave Mason Photographer” out there on the net, plus a well-known guitarist from the band “Traffic". So I had a look at the family history and discovered that Charles has been used as a family name for over two hundred years.
I thought I’d dust it off and take it for a run…