Bookseller and photographer; bought first camera in 1883 for photomicroscopic and landscape photography; George Smith, owner of the Sciopticon Company, made lantern slides from Evans's negatives; in 1887 Evans received the Photographic Society of London's medal of honour for his photomicrographs; lifelong engagement with the photography of cathedral architecture; 1891 elected a member of the London and Provincial Photographic Association; bought into partnership bookshop owned by Edward Jones about 1890, which Evans latter inherited on Jones' death; retired from bookshop in 1898, giving his full attention to the making of fine photographs and writing critical and technical articles on his chosen medium, the platinum print; elected to the Linked Ring Brotherhood in 1900; held a one-man show of his photographs at the Royal Photographic Society in April 1900; in 1903 his work was featured in Alfred Stieglitz's magazine Camera Work; elected honorary fellow of RPS in 1928.