David Chow was a fine art photographer based in Cambridge. He studied photography at degree level with printmaking at master’s level, at the Cambridge School of Art. David started his career by producing striking black and white portraits of flowers, he then turned his eye to alternative printing techniques used by the old masters of photography. David became well known in the U.K as an exquisite Cyanotype print artist of flowers. He was passionate about using these techniques, as they had an ability to capture an expansive tonal range and a unique luminescence. 

The power of David’s photography lies in its simplicity and he was able to capture beauty in both living and dying flowers. A keen botanist, the majority of David’s flower portraits came from specimen's grown and picked from his own garden. Using large and medium format camera's, with the aid of natural daylight, his photographs captured the most intimate and subtle details of each flower.

David published three limited edition hand made books and portfolios that form part of the’ Expressive Flower Series’. Beautifully hand bound, these books merged David’s love of poetry, flowers and photography all in one art form. David was represented by a number of galleries in the U.K and U.S and has exhibited his work widely. His work is now in numerous private and corporate collections.

As well as printing his own work, David soon became well sort after for his meticulous black and white printing. Having printing requests from the likes of The National Portrait Gallery, the Estate of Norman Parkinson, Rankin and Sally Mann but to name a few.

David also held many workshops. He was one of the very few practitioners in the country to be teaching alternative printing processes. These included cyanotype and platinum/palladium printing from digital negatives, of which he was the first person to practice this in the U.K. His primary aim was to pass on all that he knew so the art of printing was not lost.