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b'Dean West, \\u201cone of the world\\u2019s best emerging photographers\\u201d (AFTER CAPTURE MAGAZINE), has a highly conceptual and thought-provoking style of contemporary portraiture. His body of work has been featured in top photography magazines, art galleries, and received numerous international awards.\\nBorn in small-town rural Australia in 1983, Dean\\u2019s love for photography began in his high school\\u2019s darkroom- one of the largest darkrooms in the country at the time- and blossomed at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.\\xa0 \\xa0\\nAfter graduating in 2007 with a Bachelor of Photography with majors in visual culture and advertising, Dean formed a partnership, Berg+West, which won nationwide acclaim as a high-end photography and post-production studio. Through clients like the QLD Government and SONY, Dean quickly learned to transform stick figure sketches into intricate composited photographs with immense detail and clarity. \\xa0\\nIn 2008, Dean was included in Saatchi & Saatchi\\u2019s collection of the world\\u2019s top 100 emerging photographers and went on to win Advertising Photographer of the Year at the International Aperture Awards. With success in advertising and a growing list of collectors- Dean decided to dedicate more of his time to the world of art.\\xa0\\nIn the following years, his series \\u2018Fabricate\\u2019 received worldwide recognition from top photography competitions, including: the International Colour Awards, the Lucie Awards, the Loupe Awards, and in 2009, Dean was the winner of the IV International Arte Laguna Prize, Venice, Italy. This final award being the most prestigious for emerging artists with over 5,000 applicants gunning for the top prize in\\xa0\\nphotography, sculpture and painting. Zoom Magazine quickly nominated Dean in the \\u2018New Talent\\u2019 issue of 2010 and the Magenta Foundation awarded Dean an emerging Photographer of Canada.\\xa0\\nDean\\u2019s body of work is now being collected by a growing number of sophisticated art collectors in Australia, Italy, and Canada.\\nwww.deanwest.com\\nhttp://www.spruethmagers.com/artists/andreas_gursky\\nwww.thecandidframe.com\\ninfo@thecandidframe.com'