Fred Chance was born in Cumbria in 1950.
He lived in London for many years working in film industry publicity before training as a teacher and moving to Gloucestershire.
Photography has been a consistent obsession and, since the turn of the century, has occupied him full time.
 Fred, who is married and has two grown children, lives in Stroud, Gloucestershire where he was co-director of the town's first festival of photography in October 2007 (www.stroudphotofestival.co.uk).
The image shown on this page appeared as a platinum print in a collection of the work of 31 Studio including some of the most iconic images of the 20th & 21st Century. A catalogue for this show is available from www.31-studio.com 

Solo Exhibitions 

2004 Subscription Rooms Gallery: "A Moment On The Road"
2005 Prema Arts Centre: "Fred Chance"
2006 Space Gallery: "Time Flies"
2008 Space Gallery "Goth"
2008 Museum In the Park "Dramarama"
2010 Subscription Rooms: “Jazz”
2010 Mills Café: “Circus”
2011Star Anise Arts Café: “Jazz”

Joint Exhibitions

1996 International Print Exhibition Royal Photographic Society
2004 2005 & 2006 Subscription Rooms Gallery with Foto Forum
2006 Space Gallery: "21 Photographers
2007 Space Gallery: "Landscape"
2007 Moulin D'Ande, Normandy with Dan Hayon
2007 Woodruffs: Foto Forum Retrospective
2007 Stroud Festival Of Photography: Platinum Exhibition and directors show with Carlos Ordonez.
2008 Subscription Rooms "On and Off The Wall"
2008 The Space Gallery "24 Photographers"
2008 The Space Gallery "Random Stroud"
2010 Ersel Gallery, Turin, Italy: “Platinum”
2011 Lansdown Gallery "10"