Denis Buchan grew up in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, and graduated from the University of British Columbia where he studied art history, philosophy, classical music, and literature of the western world. It would be 15 years before he purchased his first serious film camera, but virtually from the first black and white image  produced, he was hooked on the photographer/camera/subject relationship and the ‘magic’ of the images that the relationship produced.

Primarily self-taught, Denis built a small but efficient darkroom in the farmhouse on his 60 acre Vancouver Island country property, producing images of mountains, rivers, forests, wildlife, cats, dogs, kids, flowers and any other subject at hand. During a seven year stay in the wilds of North-Western Ontario (from 1999 – 2006), Denis made the switch to digital photography. Landscape photographs shot on his 120 acre rural lake property there, were the main subject (with an award-winning image published in B&W magazine-Issue 48, Feb.2007,) Since moving to Winnipeg in the spring of 2006, he hit the ground running, continuously photographing the very vibrant and talent-filled local indie music scene, with all its colour, excitement and interesting personalities.

In the spring and summer of 2007, Denis was the Photo-Crew Coordinator for the Winnipeg Folk Festival, and gained invaluable experience producing scores of portraits of the many musicians appearing that year at the Festival and at the downtown Folk-Fest venue, ‘The Exchange’. During that festival season The WFF initiated what has now become its annual Photography Exhibition, with Denis exhibiting a choice cross-section of performer portraits, which again, can be viewed on his website in a special gallery- 1^st Annual Winnipeg Folk-Festival Photography Exhibition.

During the  fall and winter of 2008, Denis was involved in a book project, “Armstrong’s Point – A History”, by Randy R. Rostecki, producing, in black & white, all the book’s contemporary photography of the Point’s 120 homes. Residing in Armstong’s Point himself, it was a labour of love working on this book about Winnipeg’s first major subdivision, with its beautiful setting, colourful history, and many architecturally important homes. It was a crash course in Architectural Photography, to be sure, but an invaluable and highly successful one. The book was released in June 2009, and has been selling brisklly, and a selection of Point homes can be viewed in a gallery on the photographer’s website: denisbuchanphotography.com

As resident photographer for Winnipeg’s, the Edge Gallery, Denis shoots many of the art shows and music concerts that take place there, providing him with a rich mix of photo opportunities many examples of which can be seen when touring the Edge Gallery website, or the Edge Gallery gallery on his own website

His aesthetic for what constitutes ‘beautiful and interesting’ in the city, nature, or in a woman’s face has been evolving all this time, and can be found articulated in his website’s Artist’s Statement, with recent photographic interpretations explored and on display in the various galleries on the site. Especially significant are the photographs to be found in the Galleries tagged with the suffix, "NEW WORK", or ' Recent Work'. They contain images, created over the past several months, whose motivation was an intense desire to create something very original in photography.which would be at once visually interesting, beautiful, and exciting. They constitute what are definitely his most important works to date. New galleries are regularly being created and added to as images are finished. His vision and style are undergoing a profound evolution, a metamorphisis even, which is both exciting and risky, as it in many ways marks new territory for contemporary photography.

While Mr. Buchan does not currently have Gallery representation he hopes to find a supportive place, and people, that appreciate and understand his aesthetic, and his vision of where photography can go.