An Unlikely Photographer is an autobiographical account of David Wilson’s journey from near death and a life-changing injury to a vision which has uniquely captured the character of Wales’s landscapes through his lens. Acclaimed for his striking black and white images of the nation’s wildness and natural beauty, David Wilson’s remarkable body of photographic work was almost never realised.

His passion for the medium began in and was shaped by his native Pembrokeshire, with many adventures undertaken in his youth with a 35mm Canon and an Ordnance Survey map.

At the age of eighteen, though, a motorbike accident came close to costing him his life, and left him changed for ever. Emotively told and with searing honesty, An Unlikely Photographer recounts David’s journey from that defining incident, to his eventual coming to terms with an incomplete recovery, finding love and becoming one of Wales’s finest photographers.

David Wilson is among Wales’s most established photographers, well known for his black and white images that uniquely evoke the character and atmosphere of the nation’s landscapes. His work with Graffeg includes the photographic studies PembrokeshireandWales: A Photographer’s Journey,Hinterland: Ceredigion Landscapes, The VillageandA Year in Pembrokeshire, with broadcaster Jamie Owen.

‘I salute David. This is an inspiring account of sheer determination and bloody-mindedness in building a life and finding happiness in spite of a terrible injury.’ Griff Rhys Jones, Actor, Comedian, Writer and Television presenter

‘David Wilson is one of the most gifted landscape photographers of his generation. That alone is a story worth sharing. But his fight for life after staring death in the face and his learning to walk again is one of the most inspiring reads you’ll find anywhere.’ Jamie Owen, Writer and Broadcaster.