About

richard john seymour is a BAFTA nominated director and award winning visual artist working across media to explore the way we affect our habitat, and the way our habitat affects us.

trained as an architect, he was awarded a scholarship to study at the architectural association in london, where he began to examine the idea of our planet as a ‘design project’. In 2020 he was featured in Human Nature as one of ‘12 of today's most influential nature and conservation photographers’.

richard’s films have been screened internationally, and he has been exhibited at leading institutions including the tate, royal academy, united nations HQ, and artscience museum singapore.

email: mail@richardjohnseymour.com

instagram: instagram.com/richardjohnseymour

Awards

Selected Press

1854 | Decade of Change winner 2021

BAFTA Nomination | British Short Film 2017

D&AD Awards | Next Photographer : Yiwu Commodity City - Shortlist

British Journal of Photography | IPA 2016: Announcing the Single Image runners-up

Lensculture | Visual Storytelling Award Winner

Royal Academy | British Institution Prize Summer Exhibition

Prix Pictet | Space Nomination 2016

Prix HSBC Pour La Photographie | Finalist 2017

Tate Collective Emerging Artist 2014

Human Nature | 12 of today's most influential nature and conservation photographers address the biggest environmental concerns of our time.

Sight & Sound | Fleeting pleasures: BAFTA’s Shorts Tour 2017

NRK | 3RW Win National Design of the Year Award for Landscape Healing

The New Yorker | The Streets of China Commodity City

The Guardian | Eyewitness China Commodity City

National Geographic | 'Planet or Plastic?' Campaign & International Museum Tour