Jake Gavin was brought up between Southwest Scotland and London. He became a photojournalist by mistake and worked for two years in Sri Lanka, India and London for Reuters, Associated Press and The Independent. In seeking a safer, more balanced lifestyle he overreacted and qualified as a barrister, before practising in intellectual property for three years. He specialised in representing aggrieved drummers including those from Oasis and Imagination ('It�s just an illusion, uh-uh�'). On being asked by his chambers� senior clerk if, for him, �the law was just a hobby�, Jake retired from the Bar, and worked with Mark Lebon making films and music videos. He then returned to still photography.
Jake has had four exhibitions: Rough Oatcakes in 2001, a series of large format portraits, and Hurting but Happy in 2003. The latter consisted of an installation of 350 portraits of strangers with flowers taken during the course of eighteen months that Jake spent working as a Saturday delivery driver for a London florist, and was sponsored by the Flower Council of Holland.;Protect the Human in 2006 for Amnesty International; Insignificant Places in 2007, an exhibition of landscapes Jake has recently opened Gallery 275, a new photography gallery off Ladbroke Grove, together with fellow photographer, Julian Broad. Jake currently divides his time between London, and his farm in the Welsh borders. For the last two years he has been working on a series of landscape photographs, taken in the valley in which he lives in Wales.
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