Richard Ansett Editions

Richard Ansett Editions Photographic artist, creative director, writer, mentor, speaker and listener. All statements are my own unless attributed. Images are ©️.

Please attribute if shared 🙏 Richard Ansett’s images are in permanent and private collections including the National Portrait Galleries of London and Canada, Bibliotheque Nationale de France and the Smithsonian. His images have been part of major collaborative exhibitions worldwide. Winner overall prize for photography at the Arte Laguna Prize and 1st at Grand Prix de la Decouverte, gold award at

Prix de la Photographie.

1st prize and shortlisted twice at the Sony World Photography Awards.

13 times selected for the National Portrait Gallery Photographic Portrait Prize (incl. Taylor Wessing, Schweppes and John Kobal. Quotes:

"An act of genius ..he is the skeleton from which all the other meat hangs." - Boris Mikhailov

“There is a very subtle line between documentation and creating a new mythology.” - ART Ukraine

“Richard Ansett is without question one of the UK’s top contemporary photographers… " - Le Cool Guide

“For all its art-world froideur and its antiseptic, scientific gleam, Ansett’s photo has that kind of sympathy, that kind of humanity.” - Blake Gopnik, Washington Post

"Its like art.." - Grayson Perry

13/05/2026

“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.”
John Maynard Keynes

I’m working with the adoption charity .uk on a deeply personal series to commemorate the the centenary of the 1926 Adopt...
12/05/2026

I’m working with the adoption charity .uk on a deeply personal series to commemorate the the centenary of the 1926 Adoption of Children Act.

The Adoption of Children Act 1926 was the landmark legislation that introduced legal adoption for the first time in England and Wales. It formalized the transfer of rights and responsibilities from birth parents to adopters, replacing unregulated, private arrangements. The act focused on child welfare, establishing legal security for children, including inheritance rights, while enabling single women and couples to formally adopt.

CORAM’s one request was to include myself in the series. Here is a glimpse of my adopted family home - my mum and dad - I am behind the camera of course.

There’s an another amusing one of dad reading where you can’t see him at all which is accurate - and my mother is always knitting - she has knitted ALOT of baby clothes for Ukraine.

The composition was inspired by ‘s wonderful recent commissioned portrait of and their children for collection (on display now).

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lighting experiment on Ivy root

04/05/2026

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