< x o x > is the website representing David Sinden, an award winning photographer and artist based in Wales. David works on solo projects and in partnership with his artistic co-conspirator Kate Woodward.

David had a brain haemorrhage in 2001 and in response to this life changing experience he started a long term project documenting survivors of brain injury.  After? is an ongoing series of portraits which reflect the experiences beyond initial trauma. In 2024 it received a national Headway Award and is now on permanent display at the Headway centre in Llandough Hospital, Cardiff.

David has also had a kidney transplant, so COVID19 was a challenge to David and his co-conspirator Kate Woodward.  Their response was the LockDownRenga... a series of online photo workshops based on an ancient Japanese poetry form linking artists across Wales, the UK and beyond to create new collaborative artworks.

David is also creating a new series of portraits of CosPlay devotees, featuring comic book icons, video game characters and superheroes.  The portraits will be published as a book and prepared for an exhibition later this year. 

Altered Ego which explores the construction of identity through the worlds of espionage and deception will reappear in future years… The Altered Ego exhibition taking over Insole Court in Llandaff was featured in the Diffusion 2019 Festival.

Significant other projects include, and SevernLight a series of landscape photographs of the ear-changing moods of the Severn estuary

David has previously worked for several leading digital arts agencies in London and Brighton, including Artec, Lux and Lighthouse Media Centre. He was co-founder in 1991 and Director of Zone Gallery, the leading photography and media gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne, until 1998.

David can be contacted on dvs@xox.org.uk or 44 77 8657 2798.

 Photographs by David Sinden: all rights reserved 2025