about inc.

What inc.photography is:

inc.photography is a collaborative venture created by partners Vincent Wong, James Woollard and Ben Stephenson. We founded inc. to share the beauty that can be conveyed through the photographic medium by providing customers from fine art, consumer and stock photography markets with a wide selection of high quality photographic art, delivered through an easy to navigate, tailored and professional website.

Our photographic styles and subject-matter are wide-ranging: with each of the partners excelling at different photographic disciplines, we are able to offer quality photographic art that covers awe-inspiring landscapes to abstract macros; from figures to florals.

We're constantly out there shooting the best art photography around. If you'd like to keep up up to date with how we're doing, it's easy! Just click our latest offerings and most popular work.

inc.collections: Our photographic art by theme, helping you find the perfect picture!

inc.stock: To help you find the images for your publishing needs, our entire image library is searchable through key-words!

Finally, if there something you need and cannot find, please feel free to contact us.


Biographies

Ben Stephenson

In my early teens, my brother Matthew took me to a favourite waterfall in North Wales armed with an old Rollei 35 compact camera, and taught me how to take long exposure photographs. The experience largely entailed wedging the camera into a secure crevice in the moss-covered rocks, carefully setting the exposure and aperture, tripping the shutter and hoping for the best. The photos turned out well given the circumstances, and I was thrilled. So begun my never ending photographic journey. From that eye-opening moment, I was out and about with a camera as often as I could be.

I had always felt at my most calm when out 'in nature'. Looking back at my formative years, photography provided a focus for the time that I spent out and about in the natural world. Namely, photography provided a way for me to interpret and share the beauty that I experienced when I was out in the field.

A few years back, I came to realise that however well I felt the photographs I took achieved my goal, something in their presentation was missing. They seemed to sway my emotions far more when I saw them printed and displayed; the colours and textures more lifelike and so much closer to the sensory experience that I had enjoyed in the field. I realised that to truly share my art in its most effective form, it needed one final stage – an outlet for my work in its most effective form: in print.

So, inc.photography is part of that final stage of sharing with as many of you as possible the beauty that I have been lucky enough to capture… from the miniscule coloured scales on a butterfly's wing to the wide-open expanse of a coastal landscape. I hope you enjoy the site!


James Woollard

I enjoyed drawing and painting from a young age and during my teenage years my interest progressed on to photography as a much ‘cooler’ form of art. I “borrowed” my Dad’s 30 year old Yashica and started to play with its largely manual controls. It wasn’t simply a case of point and shoot with this camera and it was good for learning the basics. My first 35mm film SLR followed shortly and I began snapping my way through rolls and rolls of film, much to the chagrin of the family on holiday! After meeting Vince at University, we shared our interest into the flowering of the digital age, spending happy hours shooting around London.

Influenced by the work of Impressionists such as Monet, I seek to capture light in forms of physical manifestation, waking at early hours to photograph the mist off the river Thames at Richmond, or through the spray of fountains. There is nothing I love more than poring over images from a shoot, and always wishing I taken more; from different angles; different zooms! With Ben and Vince, I look forward to us learning from each other and taking our photography further.


Vince Wong

It really doesn’t seem like the decade or so ago since I started messing around with the first camera I could really call my own: a two-megapixel Sony Cybershot. Back then, it was as much an interest in the technology, as photography as an art form. What I would come to realise, as Ben introduced me to the world of SLR cameras, and I acquired my own, is that photography would fulfil a very personal need: that of self-expression. It goes beyond the old adage that “a picture speaks a thousand words” – my photos allow me to convey emotions that I would struggle to express in any other way.

Photography’s influence on my experience of places I visit has been one of its many pleasant surprises, somehow immersing me in my surroundings, and opening my eyes to all that’s around me. As some have observed, some of my photography is in a documentary or even journalistic style, particularly when I’m abroad – the element of story-telling is important in my work.

So, why inc.photography? When viewing my photos, friends, family and colleagues have often said with conviction: “You could sell those!” In response, I’ve often wondered why one of my photos would be any better than the next tourist’s snapshot. Let’s hope that I am wrong in my humble thinking, and that they are right in their support and encouragement – I’ll let you decide. Working with Ben and James has been an absolute pleasure. Without their patience, expertise and enthusiasm, our art would never have seen the light of day.

I sincerely hope you enjoy what we have to offer.