Portrait Photography

Fergus Greer

We are delighted to represent noted portrait photographer Fergus Greer, who has worked extensively in the U.S. and Europe.

The National Portrait Gallery acquired an important archive of fifty portraits celebrating the world of literature, politics, music and film by Fergus. Initially working as a photographic assistant with Richard Avedon he was also Terence Donovan's studio manager. As a freelance photographer, he worked for a variety of magazines and regularly shot covers for The Sunday Times Magazine. He moved to Los Angeles in 1997 and photographed for leading American and international magazines.

Fergus first exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in 2001 in the display Film Directors: Photographs by Fergus Greer featuring prominent filmmakers from the past sixty years. Subjects included Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee, Oliver Stone and Mike Leigh.

As an officially accredited war artist he documented the war in Kosovo, and a book of these photographs, was published in June 2001. He also collaborated with the Australian performance artist Leigh Bowery to produce Leigh Bowery Looks: Photographs 1988--1994 (2001). After ten years in Los Angeles, he recently returned to live in London where he now concentrates mainly on portrait photography.