Anthony Epes is a fine art photographer from California based in London since 2000. He received a double major at Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara, in Colour Theory and Commercial Photography.

Anthony has built up a wide group of private collectors. He is a judge on The Environmental Photographer of the Year Awards (CIWEM.org) and a founding UK member of the International Environmental Photographers Association based in Japan(IEPA.org). He is also one of the ‘Courvoisier Future 500’, a collection of rising stars in their field.


Artist statement

“As a young child growing up in Maine the forest was my back garden. I would leave my house early in the morning and wander the forest all day. For me the natural world is a second life, a fantasy land of purity and calm, that I escape to when the violence of our concrete city gets too much for me.
“I feel an attachment to the artistic tradition of reverence for natural beauty and reverence for the technical skill of the artist. The rejection of beauty and skill in much of modern photography makes me return with stronger conviction to my beliefs.”

Anthony is an active proponent of the ‘Pop-up Gallery’ movement in London, having launched a number of pop-up galleries in empty spaces across London since 2007 with proceeds of profits going to local charities supporting environmental concerns and children’s causes. In the past two years he has launched Pop-up galleries in Barnes with MP Zac Goldsmith, Camden, Bankside and Waterloo for both his own work and other artists.



Cities at Dawn
In 2003 London at Dawn was published by Metro publishing (an imprint of John Blake Publishing) with a 2nd edition published the year after. Alongside the images over sixty well known personalities wrote pieces for the book about the city at dawn – including Simon Callow, Mo Mowlam, Anthony Sher, Suggs, Sarah Lucas and Alain de Botton.

Following on from the success of London at Dawn Anthony will be developing the project by visiting other cities from July 2011 to photograph them in the dawn hours. Starting in Paris, Anthony will be visiting other cities including Dubai, Rome and New York over the next 18 months for an exhibition and publishing project.