“Graham has been roughed up by ex-President Clinton’s secret service bodyguards in HK, been held up by AK-47 toting ex-Khmer Rouge soldiers in Cambodia, crawled across minefields in Laos, squatted 300 metres from Taliban frontline trenches in the 2001 Afghanistan War and narrowly missed suicide bombs in Baghdad, Iraq, 2003.”
Graham Uden is a British-born Hong Kong / Indonesia based photographer. He graduated from Ravensbourne College of Art & Design, London, in 1985 with a Degree in Graphic Design / Visual Communications. For the next 8 years he lived and worked in London, New York, Sydney and Singapore, combining photography with design. On arrival in HK in 1992 he specialised in corporate and commercial photography for multi-national corporations all over the world including aerial, architectural and portraiture for annual reports, brochures and ads as well as editorial features and reportage. He is now based in Indonesia and travels to Hong Kong frequently for the bigger jobs.
Awards
2020 through 2003 ARC, Astrid, Galaxy and Mercury Awards Winner
2020 Hong Kong Magazine Influencer Award
2007 HKIPP Asia Photo Awards Winner
2006 Asia Interactive Website Awards Winner
2005 HK FCC Corporate Photographer of the Year, for the The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels Annual Reports [Peninsula Hotels]