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Ian Phillips-McLaren (photographer)
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Ian Phillips-McLaren (Born 13th June 1960) is a Scottish / British portrait and fashion photographer, Known for his natural, no-gimmicks style, Ian’s images are authentic, honest and strikingly expressive.
Ian was born in Glasgow, Scotland, he worked as a DJ in Glasgow night clubs while studying photography during the day. He is mainly self taught but did do an HNC in photography course.
In his second year as a photographer, the BBC made a TV programme about him called ‘A Style Of One’s Own’. He then became Artist in Residence at the Glasgow School of Art and in 1990 held a show representing Glasgow as part of its ‘City of Culture’ programme. Soon after came his first Album Cover for famous Glasgow band Wet Wet Wet followed by a series of portraits published in American Vogue.
Ian moved to London in 1991 and continued his successful career shooting portraits of artists, celebrities and real people.
He is a Four time nominee and recipient of an Honorable Mention in the world’s most prestigious International Photography Awards as well as being nominated in the International Colour Awards
A leading expert in his field, Ian teaches and mentors other well known photographers, he is frequently invited to give talks on photography and does photography masterclasses.
In 2014 Ian started to shoot personal projects under the name IP McLaren, mainly Landscape photography / fine art photography producing beautiful hand made prints. Going back to his Darkroom roots and printing Gelatin Silver prints, also taking it further and printing Salt Prints and Albumen Prints, using and keeping alive lost techniques from the dawn of photography from the 1830's, invented by Henry Fox Talbot and Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard