Peter Marlow in 2013

Peter Marlow (19 January 1952 – 21 February 2016) was a British photographer and photojournalist, and member of Magnum Photos.[1]

Career

Born in Kenilworth, England in 1952, Marlow studied psychology at Manchester University, graduating in 1974.[2] He began his photography career in 1975 working on an Italian cruise liner in the Caribbean before joining the Sygma news agency in Paris in 1976.[3] In the 1970s, Marlow worked in Northern Ireland, Angola, The Philippines and Lebanon primarily as a war photographer, but soon found that the competition of photojournalism did not suit him.

I did get some very good pictures, and was doing a lot of conflict work, but I just realised I was never ever going to be Don McCullin. And actually, in certain situations, I was very, very scared.[4]

He returned home to Britain, and worked in Liverpool on an eight-year project, Liverpool – Looking out to Sea, which documented what he perceived to be decline of the city under Margaret Thatcher.[4]

He became associated with Magnum Photos in 1980 and became a full member in 1986, having been attracted to the freedom the agency gives its photographers to work on personal projects.[4][1][5] Alongside Chris Steele-Perkins, he founded Magnum's London office in 1987.[1] He served as the agency's president twice and was vice-president numerous times.[1] The photographer Martin Parr said it was "difficult to overestimate" Marlow's contribution to Magnum".[1]

He also worked regularly for The Sunday Times in the mid-1980s.[1] In 1991 he received an assignment from the Somme department in France to photograph Amiens.[6] Later he began to work abroad again, travelling to Japan, the United States, and other parts of Europe.[7] His later photography is primarily in color.[8] Though well known for his depictions of places, Marlow also documented politics with a collaboration with Tony Blair.[3]

Marlow is also known for his photos of his three sons and wife.[2]

Marlow died on 21 February 2016 from influenza contracted during a stem cell transplant as a treatment for multiple myeloma.[9][10]

Publications

Books by Marlow

  • Liverpool: Looking out to Sea. London: Jonathan Cape/Random House, 1993. ISBN 0-224-03727-7; ISBN 0-224-03728-5
  • Concorde: The Last Summer. London: Thames & Hudson, 2006. ISBN 978-0-500-51312-5. With a preface by A. A. Gill and an introduction by Mike Bannister.
    • Concorde: le dernier été. Paris: Thames & Hudson, 2006. ISBN 9782878112832. Translated by Joëlle Marelli.
  • The English Cathedral. London and New York: Merrell, 2012. ISBN 9781858945903. With an introduction by Martin Barnes and other text by John Goodall.
  • English National Ballet: Breaking New Ground. London: Magnum Photos, 2015. ISBN 978-0956547842.
  • Undercover Spitalfields: Market Stories. London: Magnum Photos, 2013. ISBN 9780956547835. With Ballymore Group.

Books with others

  • Département Somme: regards de photographes. Amiens: Trois Cailloux, 1992. ISBN 2903082669. Photographs by Marlow, Harry Gruyaert, Jeanloup Sieff, Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt, Martine Voyeux and Hugues de Wurstemberger; prefaces by Christian Caujolle and Jacques Darras.
  • Way to Gods: Magunamu Foto: Kumano kodō, Santiago e no michi (WAY to GODS　マグナム フォト　熊野古道 サンティアゴへの道), ed. Nagasaka Yoshimitsu (永坂嘉光). Tokyo: Kawade Kobō Shinsha, 1999. ISBN 4-309-90293-6. (Additional title on front cover: Ancient Kumano Roads and Roads to Santiago.) Contains photographs by Marlow of Kumano kodō and camino de Santiago; as well as photographs by Elliott Erwitt, Chris Steele-Perkins and Harry Gruyaert.
  • The Shape of a Pocket. London: Bloomsbury, 2001. With John Berger.

Filmography

  • 1989: Moving Stills, Channel 4, UK.
  • 1992: Waiting for Madonna (documentary, 15 min, directed by Marlow), TV Tokyo, Japan/Little Magic Productions USA.
  • 1994: Profile of Peter Marlow, The Late Show, BBC, UK.

Awards

Exhibitions

  • 1979: The Ultra Right in Europe, The Canon Gallery, Amsterdam.
  • 1983: London by Night, The Photographers' Gallery, London.
  • 1987: Peter Marlow's London Night Photos, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • 1989: Liverpool, Il Diaframma, Milan.
  • 1993: Looking Out to Sea, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool; The Photographers' Gallery, London.
  • 1993: Brighton Besides the Seaside, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK.
  • 1994: Looking Out to Sea, Royal Photographic Society, Bath, UK.
  • 1998: Non Places, Keynes Gallery, Canterbury, UK.
  • 1999: Ancient Kumano Roads Japan and the Road to Santiago de Compostela Spain, Galleries in Osaka, Kyoto, Tokyo and Wakayama, Japan.
  • 2000: Britain, Saison Photographique Cherbourg Octeville, France.
  • 2001: Nantes, ABN AMRO Gallery Nantes, France.
  • 2009–2010: London at Night, The Wapping Project Bankside, Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, London.[13][14]
  • 2011: Point of Interest, The Wapping Project Bankside, Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, London.[15][16]
  • 2013: The English Cathedral, The Wapping Project Bankside, Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, London.[17][18]

Collections

Marlow's work is held in the following public collections:

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 O'Hagan, Sean (3 March 2016). "Peter Marlow obituary". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  2. 1 2 "In Memoriam: Remembering the Photographers We Lost in 2016". Time. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
  3. 1 2 "Euro Visions biography". Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 10 December 2010.
  4. 1 2 3 "Peter Marlow's Incredible Photos of Eerie English Crisis". Vice. 23 April 2014. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
  5. ↑ Seymour, Tom (25 February 2016). "Obituary: Peter Marlow". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  6. ↑ Personal website biography
  7. ↑ Magnum Photos biography
  8. ↑ Urban Encounters biography Archived 2010-04-25 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ↑ Stuart Franklin, "Peter Marlow: 1952-2016", Magnum Photos, 22 February 2016.
  10. ↑ Olivier Laurent, "In Memoriam: Peter Marlow (1952 – 2016)", Time, 22 February 2016.
  11. ↑ "Historial Archived 2015-04-11 at the Wayback Machine", Deputación da Coruña. Accessed 5 April 2015.
  12. ↑ "Honorary fellowships", Royal Photographic Society. Accessed 5 April 2015.
  13. ↑ "Peter Marlow at the Wapping Project Bankside". Wallpaper. 26 November 2009. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
  14. ↑ "Exhibitions \ Peter Marlow \ London At Night". The Wapping Project Bankside. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
  15. ↑ "Exhibitions \ Peter Marlow \ Point of Interest". The Wapping Project Bankside. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
  16. ↑ Epstein, Robert (22 May 2012). "Portfolio: Peter Marlow". The Independent. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022. Retrieved 14 June 2012.
  17. ↑ Klingelfuss, Jessica (22 July 2013). "Peter Marlow's 'The English Cathedral' at The Wapping Project Bankside". Wallpaper. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
  18. ↑ "Exhibitions \ Peter Marlow \ The English Cathedral". The Wapping Project Bankside. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
  19. ↑ "Peter Marlow | Magnum Consortium". www.magnumconsortium.net. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
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