Collections by Dylan Collard
Collections is a photographic service by Dylan Collard that creates memorial portraits of people by photographing the objects and treasures they have acquired over a lifetime.
Through beautifully lit, highly detailed and carefully arranged compositions, Dylan creates fascinating worlds that family and friends can explore as completely unique memorials. A Collections image is a wonderful tribute to someone's life that can be shared and re-printed for all the family. It's a way of holding onto a loved one's personal keepsakes and collections you might not have room for in your own house.
All you need to do is gather together all the objects that you, or your loved one, have cherished, coveted and held close over the years. It's easy; just think of everything that reminds you of the subject. All objects are relevant from precious, rare and unique treasures, to ordinary, everyday objects that only hold significance to you or their owner.
Book your Collections shoot and Dylan will personally come to pick up the objects to be photographed. The process takes about 2-3 weeks. On completion, Dylan returns your objects along with a beautiful, framed print of your collection.
Each Collections print is framed in a wooden, dark brown, 455mm by 600mm portrait frame, with 22mm square frame molding, finished with standard exhibition glass. The prints have been deliberately framed without a window mount to give a more personal, 'boxed' look and feel. Each frame is handmade in Hebden Bridge and supplied ready to hang with 'D-Ring' picture hooks.
Dylan is a Todmorden based, award-winning photographer who has been working in London as an advertising and design photographer for the last 22 years. Dylan has shot for the likes of Pfizer, Adidas, O2, Santander, Cadbury’s, NatWest, TFL, Vodafone, NHS, UKEF, Action for Children, Discovery Channel and the Royal Mail. He has been fortunate to receive numerous awards over the years from institutions like Creative Review, Sony World Photo Awards, The Association of Photographers Awards, Kuala Lumpur Portrait Awards, Lucie Awards and the Portrait of Britain Awards. Dylan’s work has been included in the National Portrait Gallery’s Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize several times as well as multiple appearances in publications like Creative Review, BJP and Communication Arts. He also has work in the V&A’s permanent photographic archive. Originally from Holmfirth, Dylan recently moved back up to Todmorden in West Yorkshire where he developed Dylan Collard Collections.
