Fay godwin photographer biography samples

Introduction

Before visiting the National Media Museum to see Fay Godwin's latest photography exhibition, I didn’t know a whole lot about her apart from the fact that she was supposedly a ‘landscape’ photographer (although much of her work appeared not to be) and that she influenced many other landscape photographers of her era.

After seeing this exhibition though, my mind has been comprehensively changed.

Fay godwin photographer biography samples

She most definitely is a landscape photographer and in my mind it is in this ‘mode’ that she shines - one of only a few professional landscape photographers of that era. The following is an account of my research about Fay and an overview of the exhibition.

Biography

I’d like to start with a little bit of background about Fay though.

Born in Berlin in 1931, Fay grew up in various countries having a British diplomat father and an American artist mother (of Scottish ancestry). They were posted to various countries and this multi-cultural, upper class, artistic environment crea