Derek Wales

An early interest in photography, with a darkroom in the attic of my parent's house, led to a 2-year course at Berkshire College of Art. BCA is now a university and if I had been born 30 years later, I would have ended up with a degree of some kind rather than the City & Guilds and Institute of Professional Photography qualifications that I obtained as a result.

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Jobs followed as an in-house photographer for a large engineering company, a general practice photographer in Reading and a photographic printer working for the major advertising agencies in London.

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I set up my own business in 1975 in the New City of Milton Keynes - a very good place to start and am proud of the fact that I saw and photographed the very early years of its development.