About Me — Remy Dean

Author and Artist

Folklore and hearsay fascinate me, how the myths and legends of the past affect our world today. I love telling stories that hover somewhere in the hinterland between fact and fantasy, whilst scratching at the surface of a truth. Stories are at the core of my creative practice and my main modes of expression are writing and photography. I also draw and explore objet-avec-courte-histoire (object with short story). Films, Fantasy and Fine Art are the topics I most often write about on Medium...

I was born in Newport, South Wales, 1965, and was writing stories as soon as I could write and long before I could spell! Mostly, reworkings of what I’d seen on telly or read in comics. I remember writing my own take on Watership Down, only with bumblebees, instead of rabbits…

I’ve been very interested in photography, well, since I first saw some photographs. Later, I was given a camera and joined the school camera club, where I was encouraged by winning a few of its competitions.

These two interests came together when I studied for a degree in audio-visual design, making short films combining spoken word and image. Straight out of college I worked as a press officer and journalist, so I continued using words and pictures together. I started out writing snippets for newspapers and magazines, then longer features…