Dean’s photography spans over 30 years in the areas of commercial, art and video.
His work has been shown at major international art festivals and galleries including the Zagreb Biennale and the George Pompidou Centre, Paris. He has been selected as a finalist for numerous art awards including the National Portrait Prize and the Bowness Prize. He was on the founding committee of the Arts Party, the world’s first political party for the arts,
Image United, his current practice, is positioned between portrait and art photography and most often with a social awareness element that has been recognised for bringing an “iconic realism” to the image “combining the vision of art and tradition of documentary photography to define a distinct style”.