Geoff has been a good friend of Bob ever since they worked in Runwell Hospital in the seventies.
Bob Clayden is an experienced and gifted photographer originally specialising in documentary photography. Bob has been involved in photography since the late 1960’s, through photographic clubs, student papers, exhibitions and working with regeneration through art. Bob has worked with many community groups, schools, theatres and festivals and has a proven track record of delivering high quality arts and photography workshops with young people.

Bob leads workshops on basic photography in both digital and silver, black and white darkroom technique, pinhole photography, Cyanotype printing, digital manipulation and publishing. This was to both children and adults in the community, often the most difficult to reach groups.


Bob has extensive experience of working with ‘hard to reach’ young people as one of the artists on the Being Here project (a three year inclusion and regeneration project in Southend that ran from 2003-2006). As part of this he worked with local skaters using digital and silver techniques to produce a digitally printed flag 1.5m by 2m, which was flown from the Cliffs Pavilion flagpole. He worked for three years with excluded and hard to reach young people in Southend on Sea, on many of the projects ranging from pinhole cameras from scrap to a DVD magazine made with young people.
Bob divides his time between exhibiting his own art around the world and running arts workshops with young people. He is a highly experienced, sensitive and engaging artist.

Specialties: In the past eight years Bob has organised workshops in both traditional photographic and digital techniques and has exhibited bodies of work in galleries in the UK, France and Switzerland.