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Born in England in 1932, I started out as a properly brought up young gentleman with an English mother and White Russian father. He fought wars all his adult life and died in a car accident in the North of England at the age of forty-seven.
Photography came to me at aged eleven, photographing birds at the bird feeder my mother put up outside the kitchen window. After the acute disappointment of the birds being minute specs in the picture, I did cows in the fields around us in Kent.
After the wine trade, Lloyd’s, racing cars, selling cars and flying aeroplanes to Australia, I became a photographer. I photographed my friend’s engagements and their weddings. I worked for magazines and advertising agencies.
I was sent to Los Angeles to photograph Mick Jagger, returned to England via New York where I met Salvador Dali in the elevator at the St. Regis Hotel. Thence started my interest in living here. Three or four years later I moved to America, remarried and lived happily ever after.
Earlier in my career I shot stills for Stanley Kubrick from whom I learnt patience and persistence.
Currently I am working on a book about the city of Newburgh in New York, a crumbling and overlooked city on the Hudson River. (Actually I have been working on it for the last fourteen years.)
In 2009 my portraits of artists and writers were acquired by the Smithsonian in Washington, DC and the National Portrait Gallery in London for their permanent collections.
Interests: growing perennials and herbs in pots and containers; cooking meals and looking for good wine for $10 a bottle and drinking it round the fire pit.