Young Lad

Richard Sadler's "Young Boy" is a haunting portrait of a very serious young British lad amidst a crowd of other people.  He is dressed very formally in hat, coat and tie.  He clutches a box bearing the name, Ludo.  It is pencil signed and numbered 189/500 beneath the image  Richard Sadler English, b. 1927  Born in Coventry, England, Sadler trained in photography at the studios of Edward Eves in Leamington Spa.  He has been involved in photographic education as a consultant and examiner but his chief interest has always been in the photograph as art. He has taught photography at the Coventry College of Art, the Derby College of Art and was course leader in Photographic Studies at the Derbyshire College of Higher Education. Sadler’s photographs are in the Victoria & Albert Collection, the Museum of Film and Photography in Bradford and the Center for Creative Photography founded by Ansel Adams in Tucson, Arizona. He currently serves as chair of the contemporary photography group of th