Roger MAYNE
b. 1929



1929
Born in Cambridge.
1947-51
Studied chemistry at Oxford and made his first photographs.
1954
Arrived in London as a freelance photographer and began to photograph working class neighborhoods.
1956
Exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London and at the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.
1957-
1962
Photographed in Southam Street, North Kensington and was active as a photojournalist.
Late 1960s
Taught photography at the Bath Academy of Art, Corsham.
1970s
Focused on landscape photography and worked in Rhodes, Corfu and Dubrovnik.
1986
Retrospective exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum revived interest in his work.
1989
Southam Street work was the subject of a BBC TV Timewatch film. 
2001
onward
Photographs exhibited at Tate St. Ives, Tate Britain and Tate Liverpool in the context or other media
2004
Exhibition at Gitterman Gallery, New York
2004
Exhibition of his portraits held at National Portrait Gallery, London.
2006
Lucie Award, New York for Achievement in Documentary
2007
Photograph chosen as poster image for Tate Britain’s “How We Are”: Photographing Britain
2007
Exhibition at Gitterman Gallery, New York
2012
Exhibition at Gitterman Gallery, New York

 
     
 
   
 
 
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