About M.P. Osborne
I am an Isle of Wight based photographer and writer.
My first roll of film was taken in 1998 when I taught myself photography on my father’s Contax 139. Over the following 26 years I have photographed weddings, portraits, fashion, mountain biking, sailing, commercial and more traditional landscape photography.
The last five years has seen me develop my practice within social documentary photography and landscape photography, combining memory, history, narrative and place, underpinned with psychogeography. Within this I explore mundane everyday scenes creating a different way of seeing the familiar.
Recently I have returned to landscape photography, framing this within the concepts of space and place, creating strong visual imagery.
As a writer I like to discuss and explore different ideas and themes around photography, art and visual culture. From general practice, through to post-photography, critical theory and more personal thoughts such as how fatherhood affected my own photography. I have also given talks centered around photographic history and theory.
Please do Email me if you have any questions or want to know more.
Education
2020 – MA Critical Creative Practice (Distinction) – Solent University
2019 – BA (Hons) 2:1 Open – Open University (undertaking Art History modules)
2016 – City & Guilds Level 3 Award in Education and Training
2010 – FdA Commercial Photography – Arts University Bournemouth
Talks, Exhibitions & Awards
2025 – Truth, Lies and Photography – Lecture at Ryde School
2021 – Awarded ARPS status from the Royal Photographic Society
2020 – MA Showcase Exhibition at Solent Showcase Gallery, Southampton & Virtual Gallery
2019 – Hughes and Mullins, Royal Photographers – talk at Carisbrooke Castle Museum
In Print
2024 – Artist Feature in Style of Wight Magazine
Prints
I am now selling select prints of my work though my own print shop.
If there is a photograph that you don’t see and would like a print, do contact me.