The Enterprise has a small photographic gallery at the back of the pub that is sponsored by a local photographic printer, Danny Pope of Matchless Prints in Lambs Conduit Street.


Andrew Catlin Photographer

His childhood was spent running wild in North London, an outsider, never in a group. Teenage passions were drawing and research. By the time he was 16 he had received the Zoological Society of London medal for the best piece of original research carried out by a student still at school.

After studying Psychology at Durham and UCL, with particular attention to Perception and Learning, Catlin determined to merge his interests to pursue photography, but concluded that he could not follow a conventional course of study in Arts or Photography.

Formal self-training in photography consisted of three years of self imposed picture deprivation, during which he confined what he saw to real life, forbidding himself to look at any books, advertising, artwork or photographs at all, other than those appearing in his own developing tray.

Even these were not reviewed after the first printing.

The first task was to see clearly. Technique was incidental; this would follow to meet the needs of perception and description.

During this time, he focussed entirely on studying and responding to what he saw in the most raw, naive and personal sense, actively avoiding any alternative perspective. Living the experiences and blurring all boundaries between work and life.

This resulted in a style that was at once simple, pure and idiosyncratic. Within 4 weeks of printing his first black and white print his work had started appearing in magazines and it was less than half a year before he was given his first magazine cover. The work spoke for itself and became widely acknowledged and published.

He has worked extensively as a photographer, cinematographer and director. Early commissions included an award winning Live Aid Concert story, the first portrait of Kurt Cobain for the story that defined the "Seattle Scene", documenting the Pogues first European tour, Peter Gabriel’s early WOMAD festivals and the Real World Recording Weeks. His music photography has appeared on numerous record sleeves. His work has been used widely in books and magazines throughout the world, and he has travelled extensively for film and photographic projects.

He has now made his home in Hastings and continues to work on new commissions as well as his own projects... Read more about the images themselves.

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