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Richie Mullen
Richie Mullen (26 October, 1983 in Dublin, Ireland) is a photographer based in London, England specialising in black and white portrait photography.

Early Life
Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, Richie attended college to study Communications and Media Production from 2002-2005. Wanting to work in television, Richie chose the course due to the inclusion of a photography module. Quickly developing a love for photography, Richie gained some experience during his studies working with model agency photographers and trying out wedding photography with one of his classmates. During this time, he also took photographs of young Irish designers, claiming his first published credit with their inclusion in the booklet for the Taispeántas Fashion Show, Ireland's biggest annual fashion show for young upcoming designers. It was at this time that he also started writing various scripts including a sitcom. These would later be forgotten as his interest in photography grew.

In September 2005 he attended Univeristy of Wolvehampton for one academic year to complete his studies in television and film production, gaining a 2.1 BA (Hons) in Digital Media. On completion of his studies, Richie returned to Dublin where he worked in retail management before moving to London on July 4th 2007 to persue a career in the media.

After a brief period of working temporary jobs, Richie secured a job with an independent television production company as an assistant scheduler to their satellite channel. He quickly moved up the ranks and became sole scheduler and junior researcher within months. Being a creative individual, Richie did not feel challenged by his job and decided to return to photography.

It was at this time that actor Jeremy Williams, whom Richie had cast in one of his university short film projects, got in touch with Richie again to discuss development of a short film script. The pair sparked up a friendship which led to Richie regularly using Williams in his future work.

Early Work
In September 2008, Richie decided to set himself a project to develop his portfolio of work. He came up with The Great Untitled Project, an interactive project which invited members of the public to answer a set of personal questions and submit their answers via email. Richie then chose people whose answers inspired him and invited those people to be the subject of an image based on one of their answers. Using social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo in addition to placing advertisements on Gumtree, hundreds of people emailed Richie with their most personal thoughts and feelings. Due to the unique interactive style of the project, online magazine Chew contacted Richie asking to feature the project in one of their issues. 8 images were submitted to Chew along with the quotations which inspired the images. The issue, titled "The Tribute" will be released for download on December 2nd, 2008.

December 2008 also sees Richie embarking on a new project which he plans to keep under wraps until it's completion, which he greats not doing with The Great Untitled Project.

Known for being somewhat of a perfectionist in relation to his work, Richie admits he is never completely happy with his work. Despite this, he has already notched up a nationally published credit by having an image of Williams accompany an article about the actor in The Jewish Chronicle newspaper.

Richie plans to showcase his work at the end of 2009 with an exhibition in central London and also plans to complete 2 further projects by this time.