John Swannell was born in 1946. After leaving
school at 16, he worked first as an assistant at Vogue Studios
and then assisted David Bailey for four years before setting
up his own studio.
He spent the next ten years traveling and working for magazines
such as Vogue, Harpers & Queen, the Sunday Times and Tatler.
During this time he developed his very distinctive, individual
style in both fashion and beauty photography.
In 1989 John Swannell had a one man show at The Royal Academy
in Edinburgh, followed in 1990 by an exhibition at The National
Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. In July of the same year The
Royal Photographic Society held a retrospective of his fashion
work.
In 1993 John Swannell was awarded a Fellowship of The Royal
Photographic Society; he was one of the youngest members to
have achieved this status at the time. In November 1994, Diana,
The Princess of Wales personally commissioned John to photograph
her together with her sons.
From November 1996 to March 1997 John had a one man show of
his portraits at The National Portrait Gallery in London to
celebrate the publication of his book 'Twenty Years On' which
are now held in their archives.
John photographed HRH The Princess Royal for her fortieth and
fiftieth birthdays. The Royal Mail commissioned John to photograph
the Duke and Duchess of Wessex for a stamp celebrating their
wedding and for the celebration stamp marking the occasion of
HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's 100th birthday in 2001.
In 2002 John was one of the photographers asked to photograph
HM the Queen to celebrate her Golden Jubliee. The images were
used in the press and exhibited at Windsor Castle. The National
Portrait Gallery in London has over fifty of his photographs,
and The V&A, The National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh,
The Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Royal Photographic
Society now have many of John's works in their permanent collections.
John Swannell has published six books:
Fine Lines (1982); Naked Landscape (1986); Twenty Years On
(1996) and was included in Ten Out Of Ten (2001), a collection
of the best British photographers, all the proceeds of which
went to the NSPCC; I'm still standing, a book of celebrity portraits
was published in November 2002, all profits made by John going
to help autistic children.
His latest book John Swannell Nudes, 1978-2006 was published
in 2007
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