Derry Brabbs


Derry Brabbs is a British landscape photographer and author. From 1984 onwards he worked with Alfred Wainwright on a series of books, including Fellwalking with Wainwright which won the 1985 Lakeland Book of the Year.
He judged the annual photographic society of the Wainwright Society from 2003 to 2016; the 2016 winner Terry Abrams took over as judge from 2017.
In 2017 he published Pilgrimage, after walking and photographing 10 major European pilgrim routes.

Personal life and family

Brabbs was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. His daughter Olivia Brabbs is also a photographer.

Selected publications

As author and photographer

  • 2020 Great Pilgrimage Sites of Europe ''Publication October 2020
  • 2017 Pilgrimage: The Great Pilgrim Routes of Britain and Europe
  • 2013 A Year in the Life of Rutland
  • 2010 The River Thames
  • 2008 Hadrian's Wall
  • 2008 The Roads to Santiago: The Medieval Pilgrimage Routes Through France and Spain to Santiago De Compostela
  • 2007 A Year in the Life of the Welsh Marches
  • 2005 In The Footprints of Wainwright
  • 2001 England's Heritage
  • 1999 Abbeys & Monasteries
  • 1998 Landmark: Cottages, Castles and Curiosities of Britain
  • 1986 English Country Pubs
  • 1985 English Country Churches''

    As photographer

  • 2014 Wainwright on the Pennine Way
  • 2010 Rambler's Rewards Elizabeth Guy & Pat Kirkbride
  • 2009 Coast to Coast with Wainwright
  • 2006 Fellwalking with Wainwright
  • 2003 Living The Past, Val Horsler
  • 2002 Dickie Bird's Britain, Dickie Bird
  • 2000 Timpson's Leylines, John Timpson
  • 1999 James Herriot's Yorkshire Revisited, James Herriot
  • 1992 Wainwright in the Valleys of Lakeland, Alfred Wainwright
  • 1991 Wainwright's Favourite Lakeland Mountains, Alfred Wainwright
  • 1989 Wainwright on the Lakeland Mountain Passes, Alfred Wainwright
  • 1988 Rural England: Our Countryside at the Crossroads Derrik Puttnam & David Mercer
  • 1988 Short Walks in English Towns, Bryn Frank
  • 1988 Wainwright in Scotland, Alfred Wainwright
  • 1987 Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk, Alfred Wainwright
  • 1985 Wainwright on the Pennine Way, Alfred Wainwright
  • 1984 Fellwalking with Wainwright, Alfred Wainwright
  • 1983 The Book of the Thames, Alan Jenkins
  • 1983 Angela Rippon's West Country, Angela Rippon
  • 1981 Wynford Vaughan Thomas's Wales, Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
  • 1979 James Herriot's Yorkshire, James Herriot