About Richard Baker (Photographer)
Richard Baker would like to be known primarily for 'Red Arrows', a book about Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team and for three decades of commissioned editorial photography, personal reportage projects and book collaborations with authors.
Following Red Arrows (2004) came four commissioned books: 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' (Hamish Hamilton, 2009); 'A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary' (Profile, 2009); 'Religion for Atheists' (Hamish Hamilton, 2011) all with Alain de Botton - and 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Profile, 2015).
In the summer of 2022 his black and white documentary and landscape photography appeared in 'A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story', once again with Polly Morland (Picador).
Richard Baker's website contains 15 galleries of photographs from The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work.
In April 2009, he posted 'Song for Occupations', about his work with de Botton, on his blog, England's Pleasant Pastures.
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Alain de Botton was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1969 and now lives in London. He is a writer of essayistic books that have been described as a ‘philosophy of everyday life’. He’s written on love, travel, architecture and literature. His books have been bestsellers in 30 countries.