Dave Hendley is a Reggae photographer, journalist and compiler based in the south of England.

He started writing for Blues And Soul Magazine in late 1976. In 1979 he co-founded the Sufferers Heights label. He was visiting Jamaica from the middle of the 70's and took many iconic photographs of Reggae artists, a significant number of these have appeared on LP sleeves and in publications such as Blues And Soul and Black Echoes.

He worked with Trojan Records from the late 70's and compiled a number of compilation LP's for them including six volumes of Creation Rockers in 1979 and two volumes of Rebel Music.

He teaches photography at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London.