Finn Beales
Finn Beales is a photographer, director and writer working across editorial, documentary and commercial practice. He shoots for clients including Apple, Aesop, Lufthansa, The Financial Times and Condé Nast. His long-form work explores landscape, environments and the communities embedded within them.
He is the author of The Storytelling Photography Workshop (15 language editions) and Let's Get Lost, shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Photography Book of the Year. Two further books are in development.
Finn lives at Pen y Common, a 17th-century longhouse near Hay-on-Wye that he helped design and restore, winning RSAW Building of the Year, Gold Medal for Architecture and a RIBA National Award.
Published and forthcoming titles.
Musings, press clippings, essays, field notes from projects, the making of books and our house in Wales.
Hand-coated platinum and palladium editions, printed in the studio. Each is signed, numbered, and made to last.
These are not files sent to a lab. Each print is made by hand, sheet by sheet, through a process that has changed little in a century. From coating to signing, a single print takes the better part of a day — which is why every one is an individual object, not a reproduction.