Location: Dominica
"Big Flamboyant tree - wrecked and leafless. 1 day after hurricane Maria. Still visible very dark clouds of passing feeders."
- Derek Galon
Artist Biography
M.A., FRPS, FOPS, hon.FSAPI, hon.CPE (only 10th Canadian to receive the Royal Photographic Society’s Fellowship, their highest distinction).
RELOCATED FROM CANADA TO DOMINICA (not Dominicana!), Eastern Caribbean – in October 2014.
Son of a musician – as a small child loved spending hours under his dad’s grand piano, listening as he practiced for his upcoming concerts. This powerful experience of real “surround sound” determined his life choice – the arts!
He studied classical music, arts, and photography. Already in his teens, he was winning awards and exhibiting works, while simultaneously continuing his education and giving concerts. With university studies completed, he further pursued his professional career in the arts.
After arriving in Canada from Europe, he expanded his professional interests to include multimedia and graphic design. He has also published books and collaborated on the production of animated 3D holograms. But photography and filming still remain his strongest passion.
Derek has made his mark during the last four decades as an internationally recognized architecture and commercial photographer, while creating his own art images along the way. His works sold to clients in many countries around the world. Currently, Derek is represented by Nature Picture Library (UK) and other stock agencies, also offering his work directly to clients – so feel free to inquire by email through the link above.
Along with his long-time partners Margaret Gajek (art historian, researcher, writer) and Les Nowak (photo panorama expert) he created in 2009 Ozone Zone Books publishing company. Their books won Benjamin Franklin Book Excellence Gold Award 2010 in New York, prestigious international Nautilus Book Award 2011, along with some other awards. Also, dozens of Derek’s art photos won prestigious international awards and medals and participated in dozens of exhibitions in the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East, Japan, China, India, and Canada.
Derek is available for lectures and workshops on technical and artistic aspects of photography, photo-editing, travel photography, creative studio lighting, and on photography publishing – to camera clubs and other interested parties. He often gets invited as a juror and organized for many years the Ozone Zone International Photo Salon.
Derek also offers independently his photography and video filming services both for local customers in Dominica, West Indies (Eastern Caribbean, or Lesser Antilles) – and for customers requiring fine photography taken in various locations around the world. He delivered many fine images to the most prestigious clients, as well as the luxury real estate agencies such as Christie’s and Sotheby’s International Realty (in UK and Canada). He is a rare cross-breed between commercial, documentary, and art photographers.
He specializes in photographing boutique hotels, fine B&B, resorts, historic architecture, and fine real estate for publicity/advertising needs. He also films – often with his drones – to offer stock to Nature Picture Library, and for various TV producers.
Having vast experience in architecture photography, landscape, nature, various styles of art portraits, conceptual art, travel, and editorial photography – he photographs exclusive residences and mansions for advertising, display, or archival purposes, does fine art portraits for portfolios – artistic images to treasure for years to come.
Derek is a Dominican photographer but travels to other countries as needed.
For more information or quotes, please contact Derek directly through his website link above.
