British foreign correspondent and
we had been in France, Italy, Lebanon
and New York. Then he was sent to
the Soviet Union and I had been told
by lots of friends that I had better
forget taking a camera to the Soviet
Union, because I’d get locked up! The
marriage was kind of on the rocks at
the time, so he went and I came to
England with our daughter. That’s
when I found out it was a little
difficult to get work as a female
photographer on Fleet Street.Had you started to use Nikon
cameras at that stage?
I didn’t start using Nikon until
around 1970, when I set up a small
photographic agency with another
photographer. I had been working
freelance for The Observer and at
one point it occurred to me that they
were always covering the fashion
shows in London, Paris, Milan and
New York, so we had the idea that ifAbove: Édith Piaf,
Grand Hotel, Paris- “I met Édith
Piaf through
friends and was
invited to join
them for tea at the
Grand Hotel. I like
this shot of her
because she is
laughing and
wearing a white
dress while most
photographs
portray her in
black dress looking
very sad, dramatic
and miserable...
which she wasn’t.”
Left: Sharon Tate,
London 1968.
This photo was
taken about a year
before Tate’s brutal
murder at her
home by members
of the Charles
Manson ‘family”.THE N-PHOTO INTERVIEW