This web site was mostly created as a free photo gallery for Dean Thorpe's (that's me!) photography collection. I'm a 100% non-profit freelance photographer who is based in Battle, East Sussex, England.

This is just a small selection of my photographic work, I have about a quarter of a million photos on my computer at the time of writing this, the majority of which are not even sorted, I just love getting out and taking photos!

These are all digital photos, but some date back almost 20 years, so if the picture quality is a little off on some then they could be old pictures, from when I was not as experienced and my cameras were not as advanced as they are now.  The recent photos section contains the most recently added or edited photographs, not necessarily the most recently taken pictures.

Views Of And From The Eiffel Tower, Paris, France

Jeremy Corbyn Talking In Hastings October 2025

Holiday To Ramsgate In Kent September 2025

Hastings Pride: My Photos From The 2025 Event

Visit To Leeds Castle In Kent

Big Cat Sanctuary - Open Day

Hardwick Hall In Derbyshire

Battle Medieval Fayre 2025

Scotney Castle Visit May 2025

Robertsbridge Soap Box Derby

Am I the world's best photographer? No, I do wish I was better at many  aspects of photography. If a photographer (paid or non-profit) ever tells you they know everything about photography then never hire them take your picture, photography is always changing, evolving, improving, adapting and so that's what we as photographer's have to do too!

Do I think I am at least a good photographer? Hopefully yes! I get a lot of good feedback on my photos and have done well in plenty of competitions over the years, from small local photography groups, to big national competitions up against some of the best photographers in the world.

These days I don't enter many competitions and the main person that I want to be impressed by my photos is Photographer Dean Thorpe! This may sound a little narcissistic, but after years of worrying what others think, I now just concentrate on photographing things that interest me, if others like my work then that is a bonus, just not a priority any more :) Plus my biggest and most painfully honest critic has always been myself, making me like my own photos is no easy task!

I am a bit of a geek, so I photograph a lot of cosplay events such as comic-cons, steampunk festivals, pirate days, pride and so on. If I can get there and people are dressed in fun costumes (geek or not) then I try to be there taking photos.

If you have seen some of these photos on a web site called Death Prone Images (an anagram of Dean Thorpe) or even Aspex Design (that site is looooong gone!) don't worry, that's me too! 

If you spot any of my photos being used for anything profit making please tell me.

The Poetry section of that site made it here too and hopefully some of the other writing will too soon