About Richard Manning

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ABOUT RICHARD MANNING

I am a Photojournalist, Writer and Researcher, Film and Web Producer as well

as a Musician. I am Writing 3 Books at the moment called The Constantine Trilogy

based on my Travels between 1986 and 2001 which will be set between 1994 and

September 11th 2001. I was also living and working in the Italian Alps north of the

Côte d’Azur during Covid and I did Photographic Exhibitions in Monaco, Madrid

and Venice while I was pursuing Art Photography which I am doing again now.

In a Way I am a Renaissance Man in the 21st Century…

My Archival work for The Hulton Archive at Getty Images is finished now

and I am very proud of it, there are a lot of very strong and historic images in it

and the words tell very interesting stories too. I wrote all of them and they were

unedited. A lot happened in the 1990's and the World is a very different place now. So,

Getty Images have a selection of my best Photographs which document a lot of the

Feature Stories that I produced back then. My Getty Images Proposal will tell you

more about that, and you can see it here: Getty Images Proposal 2012

In the 1990’s in the early days of the Internet I was a Multi-Media Producer, working

with New Media as it was called then. I was one of the very first people to put Film &

Sound on the Web. In addition to my Travel Photography, I also worked in Horse Racing

in the UK as a Photographer and in Marketing. I started working with Digital image

sending in the early days when I worked for the Sport & General Press Agency

(1993-1995) and sent pictures back to the UK in 1997 to Horse & Hound

Magazine from Mongolia.

Testing the technology from as remote a location as I could find. Inspired by another

Photographer who I saw sending his photographs back to his Agency from the finishing

post at Royal Ascot, just minutes after the race had ended. It was at that point that I

realised what was going to be possible with this New Technology.

Now Everyone Can Do This On Their Phone…

So, in 1998 inspired by this and also a meeting I had with a senior Producer at the

BBC, I set up my next project which was possibly the most ambitious thing that I have

done. I went to Central Asia, (Turkmenistan & Uzbekistan) to produce a Multi Media

Website remotely with Film, Words and Pictures on it… The Website took me 1 and a

half years to complete and it documents my journeys and findings from which I called

The Chinta Mani and you can see it online here: The Chinta Mani Website

I have also Produced and worked on a number of Films as a Photographer and

Camera Man, primarily in Asia, although one in the UK called Have Saddle Will Travel

about the Grand Military Race Meeting which the Queen Mother was the Patron of and I

did research for a BBC TV series called Medicine Men in Turkmenistan, Morocco & Iran

in 1988 and 1999, I have also worked on Films in India, Mongolia and Nepal. As well as

Have Saddle Will Travel, I have made 2 Films in Morocco myself.

A Walk Through Morocco which you can see Here

And a Live music performance By Musicians Dar Ganawa which you can see Here

For any more information about any of these things you can contact me

Directly by email, I will be only too happy to help: E-mail: RMI@rmas.org

All The Best, Richard…