About
Fred Howarth is a photographer and filmmaker based in East London specialising in architecture and the urban environment. His journey into photography began whilst studying his bachelor's degree in Architecture at Oxford Brookes University in 2011. Teaming up with a close friend who shared the passion he learnt to shoot in the analogue medium which necessitated the fundamentals of photography- light, exposure, aperture, focus, composition.
Fred spent 10 years working as an Architect at the Stirling Prize winning Haworth Tompkins across a range of cultural projects including Pembroke College Cambridge, Trafalgar Olympia and Theatr Clwyd in North Wales. During this time he grew his photographic practice, capturing projects for an ever expanding roster of clients from construction through to completion before becoming fully freelance in 2025.
His approach to capturing the world has been fed by his architectural education in the built environment, material craft and design along with his interest in landscape photography. His photographs produce honest, beautiful images that elevate the architecture while celebrating the contextual nature of their setting whether it be a dense urban block or beach edge.
Fred’s work has been featured in:
The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Financial Times, Forbes. Architect's Journal, The RIBA Journal, Architectural Review, Wallpaper Magazine, The Evening Standard, Metropolis Magazine, Architecture Today, Detail Magazine, Dezeen, TimeOut Magazine, Bauwelt, AIT Magazine, Casabella, The Stage Magazine, Grand Designs Magazine and Ideal Home Magazine.
Clients include:
Haworth Tompkins, IF_DO, Glenn Howells Architects, Metropolitan Workshop, Common Ground Architecture, Delve Architects, Citizens Design Bureau, Ian Chalk Architects, MATT Architecture, Flower Michelin, Studio MASH, David Money Architects, SUPRBLK studio, Studio Webster Dale, Studio Hatcham, School of Speculation & Wendover Partners.
Other:
2022 recipient of Alamanac Critics Choice Award for Emerging Architectural Photography
2024 Close to Hedge Exhibition at Gareth Gardner Gallery
2025 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.