Dean Chalkley- Winner of NME’s “Outstanding Contribution To Music Photography Award”.

We are extremely pleased to announce that NME Magazine has named Dean Chalkley the winner of their “Outstanding Contribution To Music Photography Award”.

In their issue dated 05.11.2011 (which featured Dean’s cover shot of the Arctic Monkeys in Fort Lauderdale) NME said:

“From shooting Arctic Monkeys for our Radar section to capturing Pete Doherty being set on fire – and plenty more besides - Dean Chalkley has been responsible for some of the most iconic music photography for the past 10 years.”

Further celebrating this in their 12.11.11 issue, NME published 4 posters in it's centre pages taken from the vast Chalkley back-catalogue of work with the NME. This included a picture of the late Amy Winehouse, Ian Brown, the formentioned Pete Doherty picture as well as the winner of The Picture Editor's “Portrait of the year award”, which features Noel Gallagher.

Kasabian NME - 24.09.11

Copyright © Dean Chalkley/IPC Media

Yesterday we recieved the latest NME magazines. We are excited to announce that NME have decided to release an extra issues to run concurrently with the regular magazine as a special edition issue with an alternative cover.

Both cover shots were taken by Dean in mid August of this year at his studio in London.

Dean also shot Kasabian's press shots, earlier in the summer for the promotion of their album "Velociraptor" which was released on the 16th September. To see more click here!