'Seaside' 2 South Street, Garlieston, Newton Stewart,
Galloway, DG8 8BH, Scotland
tel: +44(0)1988 600611 email: info@photoactive.co.uk

He is a professional photographer and writer. His first picture was published when he was just 14 years old. At 15, working with glass plate press cameras, he was an apprentice on a local newspaper. He was the youngest staffman ever to join the Daily Express, where he worked for 15 years before being invited to work for The Independent newspaper in London. He then joined the Sunday Times as their Travel Photographer - 'The best job in the world', says Philip.

Photograph of Philip Dunn by Denis Thorpe, The Guardian Newspaper

REPUTATION
At The Sunday Times he gained a reputation for his stunning landscape photographs and his perceptive and witty photographs of people. During his career, he has photographed and written about everything from elephants in Sri Lanka, the ethnic mix of Mauritius, Arab horse races in the Jordanian desert, the origins of Wigan Pier and the Coconut Dances of Bacup. He has photographed everyone from prime ministers and royalty to the children who live in the rubbish heaps of Cairo.

AWARDS
Philip has won a string of photography awards including two times Features section, and three times News section of The British Press Photographer of the Year Awards; Features and News sections of the Ilford Awards. He is the author of two books, and during his freelance career he has covered assignments all over the world for The Times, The Daily Telegraph, You Magazine, Saga Magazine, COI, Sunday Express Magazine and many more. He has built a huge collection of travel photographs which he markets under the name of PD Picture Library.

He still believes that photography is great fun. In fact he spends most of his spare time taking pictures for pleasure - especially around his home in Galloway. The picture above is just one of a bagful of b/w images he produced on a gentle afternoon stroll from 'Seaside's' front door.

CUT OUT THE NONSENSE
Are you turned off by 'precious' photographers? The sort who like to perpetuate the myth that good photography is somehow the exclusive preserve of 'arty' types. Well, the aim of Photo Active Magazine and the workshops is to cut away all that nonsense and to enable everyone with an interest in photography to achieve better results, to get more fun from it, and maybe even make some money from it as well. Philip is able to do this with a background of long experience - 30 years of success.