Photography | Erik Winther Paisley
My photography history
Photography has been a minor, but steady part of my life since 2011, when I brought a Pentax compact camera to help document my ethnographic fieldwork in Beijing.
It remained a side project until my father died in 2020, and I decided to take over my his old equipment. It was a way of reconnecting at first, then trying to take his advice and pursue the arts more seriously.
I started out doing portraits of friends and family, at events, took up street photography again, and then on one very grey and rainy day I decided to shoot a still life, almost as a counterpoint to street photography.
I sold my first prints in 2020, had my first formal training in 2021, joined the Royal Photographic Society, and I’m currently as of 2025 working on a portfolio for the RPS Licentiate.
Hope you enjoy my photos!
Erik Winther Paisley
