Radkin Photography is an established photography business with a focus on limited edition artistic prints and exclusive assignment photography. Radkin is based out of Budapest, Hungary with a Canadian office in London, Ontario.

Radkin Mission Statement

We strive to help professionals express themselves and create a harmonious atmosphere at home and at the office through fresh, modern imagery.

Community Oriented

Radkin spends considerable amounts of time finding ways of getting in touch with the community. Organised events, projects and general interaction allow Radkin and Partners the opportunity to learn what members of a particular community are feeling and thinking.

This understanding provides us with information on how we can make the community a better place.

Recent Projects

· Suits on Bikes – a non-political, non-religious initiative established by 5 British ex-pats to raise money for some of the most socially disadvantaged groups in Central Eastern Europe. Radkin photographed the cycle (a combined total of 1,750 km) through the Transylvanian countryside that raised 60,000 Euro and later exhibited images providing an insight into the work of the initiatives supported by the Suits on Bikes donation and the day-to-day reality of those individuals who benefit. Radkin will again participate in the 2005 Suits on Bikes charity ride in September. (www.suitsonbikes.com)

· Portrait of a Hockey Player – an attempt to reach out to hockey players across Central Europe who play the game because they love to. Radkin embarked on an 11 day 4,200 km trip from Budapest to the Baltic Sea to Belgrade discovering the great power hockey has at all playing levels among those athletes dedicated to the sport. Representing Canada, Radkin successfully connected with the Central European hockey community and increased positive awareness of both Canada and the nation’s sport. (www.radkin.com)

· Rain in Portugal Exhibition – in cooperation with Café One, Radkin is donating 100% of the first 3 ‘Rain in Portugal’ Limited Edition Prints sold at Café one to a locally registered charity or cause of the purchaser’s choice. (www.radkin.com)

Radkin Exhibitions and Awards

Radkin currently has exhibitions in Hungary, Sweden and Canada ranging from Romanian Roma to ‘Rain in Portugal.’

Radkin has recently been awarded winner in the industry leading Applied Arts Magazine ‘Portrait’ category. A series of 3 Romanian Roma portraits (teacher, policeman, musician) will be published in the Applied Arts Magazine Photography/Illustration Annual - July/August 2005 issue. (www.appliedartsmag.com)

Clients

• KPMG
• Universal Studios: Steven Spielberg's new film Munich (post-production on stills)
• Cushman & Wakefield Healey & Baker
• Mmd Public Relations
• 3am Labs
• PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Oracle Corporation
• Universal Records
• Cosmopolitan Magazine
• Avaya Communication
• AB Aegon
• British Chamber of Commerce
• Lakáskassza Kft.
• European Roma Rights Center
• and many more...

Radkin Biography

A 1998 hitch-hiking trip to Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria saw Richard J. Adkin meet photography. Upon his return to Budapest, Hungary, where he was attending University, Richard realized his new hobby could become something more. Subsequent experimentation in film, lighting, cameras, lenses, concept and whimsical subject matter, meant it was not long before the artist found his groove.

Trademark features such as; forever-skies, eccentric angles and zealous, contrasting, saturated color emerged. A distinctive style which soon brought Richard to the attention of corporations and magazines. Commercial work funded creative projects, which, in turn, have taken Richard across Europe from from Portugal to the Black Sea, from Albania to the Arctic Circle. Travels which birthed exhibitions on both sides of the Atlantic.

Born in 1974 in St. Thomas, Ontario, the artist has been based in Budapest for nearly a decade. Richard is equally known for his landscapes and cityscapes, as for his portraiture. His photographs of the world around him represent not only a delight in nature, wide open spaces, powerful infinite skies, but also a love of people. Richard's award winning portraits are an in-your-face meeting with the humanity of individuals. Often choosing minorities as his subject matter, such as Eastern European Roma, the artist
has used his portraiture as medium to promote human rights issues and raise awareness of the plight of minorities.

Increasing demand for his work, and a need for artistic expansion means Richard and his girlfriend, human rights activist Tara Bedard, are planning to eventually leave Eastern Europe and set out through Siberia, Mongolia and China, making their way across the Pacific into South America. The final journey will be north into southern Ontario where Richard and Tara plan to settle and begin their family.

- Sue Healy

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