Appointed as the official photographer of the Royal Navy during the Second World War, CECIL BEATON learned the craft of photography at the studio of Paul Tanqueray, until Vogue took him on regularly in 1927. Over the course of his career, he employed both large format cameras, and smaller Rolleiflex cameras. He focused on staging a gripping model or scene and looking for the perfect shutter-release moment. He worked at Vogue, Vanity Fair and has often photographed the Royal Family for official publication.During the war, he produced many fashion portraits of the different women’s naval uniform designs and he sharpened his style and broadened his range. Beaton’s career was restored by the war.
Founder and director of SHOWstudio.com, NICK KNIGHT published his first book of photographs ‘Skinhead’ in 1982 when he was still a student at school. He worked at i-D as an editor as is currently a honorary professor at UAL (University of Arts London). He worked with designers like Yohji Yamamoto, Alexandre McQueen and was commissioned in 2016 to shoot official portraits of portraits of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles for the Queen’s 90th birthday. He has a unique approach that not only leads to photography that captures movement but also experimentation with the moving image itself.
Awarded third prize as The Independent Young Photographer Of The Year, TIM WALKER’s interest in photography began at the Condé Nast library in London where he worked on the Cecil Beaton archive for a year before university. He worked at Vogue, W Magazine and LOVE magazine and staged his first major exhibition at the Design Museum in 2008. He has a theatrical, fantasy-filled photography style that makes him stand out from the crowd.
PHOTOGRAPHIES
These are some of my own photography experimenting with different shutter speed and aperture, some where taken outside, others on the studio.
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