Peter Marlow was born on the 19th of January in 1952 in Kenilworth. England.
He was a British photographer, photojournalist and a member of Magnum Photos. Peter's photography career began in 1975, he worked on an Italian cruise liner in the Caribbean, and he later joined Sygma news agency in Paris in 1976. He was primarily a photojournalist for war photography in Northern Ireland, Angola, The Philippines and Lebanon. Peter felt that photorealism was about intelligence, not the quality of the photographs. He felt that and was a competition on which photojournalist's photograph would go back to the press the quickest, and so he decided that photojournalism was not suitable for him. He also said that a lot of the war photojournalism was a rather scary experience. He enjoyed photographing England, his home country and photographed all 42 of the Cathedrals in England for one of his projects. He was astounded by the power and energy of them, despite not being religious. In 1981 there was a Tori Conference, to which he photographed Margaret Thatcher, the British Prime Minister at the time. Peter joined Magnum Photos in 1986 with a portfolio of 43 photographs, which was very lucky for him. |
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