Sir John Betjeman

Sir John Betjeman

Sir John Betjeman CBE was an English poet, writer, and a broadcaster. He was Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death. He was a founding member of The Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture, helping to save St Pancras railway station from...
Keith Haring

Keith Haring

Keith Haring grew up in Pennsylvania and was an activist from an early age. He learnt basic cartooning skills from his father and from the popular culture around him, such as Dr. Seuss and the Peanuts comic strip. In one of his early works, this radian heart-love...
Alfred Eisenstaedt

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Whilst employed as a button and belt salesman in Berlin, Alfred Eisenstaedt taught himself photography and worked as a freelance photojournalist. Waiters at the Window — 1901 In 1929 he received his first assignment that would launch his professional career – the...
French photographer Robert Doisneau

French photographer Robert Doisneau

Robert Doisneau was born on the 14th April 1912 and lived until the 1st April 1994. He was a French photographer and early pioneer of photojournalism. In the 1930’s he photographed the streets of Paris and was noted for his poetic approach to street photography. As a...
Life by Rebecca Hearfield

Life by Rebecca Hearfield

This moving and emotive shot was taken by our resident photographer, Rebecca Hearfield. It was during a visit to the Rhiza Babuyile where the mother was waiting for her baby to be seen at the mobile clinic. What attracted Rebecca to take this photograph was the shape...