BRYAN WHARTON

LONDON

"They are by far the best pictures anybody ever took of me"

Kurt Vonnegut Jnr. 1970

John Lennon London 1965

"The contribution to the iconography of the period is undeniable"

Joanna Pitman The Times 2001.

Yom Kippur War Suez 1973. An Israeli Tank Commander

"A highly important and significant group of photographs"

Terence Pepper OBE. Curator of Photography, The National Portrait Gallery, London.

John Paul Getty 1975 England

"Working with him was serious fun. His pictures show it."

Philip Oakes, Sunday Times.

Mandy Rice-Davies 1986 London

An internationally renowned photo-journalist, Bryan Wharton has won countless awards for his work for the Sunday Times. He has covered several wars and natural disasters, but he is perhaps best known for his incisive portraits of well known personalities, many of whom have become his closest friends.

"Some correspondents failed to turn up until after the last shot had been fired but the entire Sunday Times photographic first team (including) my old friend Bryan Wharton were soon in action ..."
Don McCullin, in Unreasonable Behaviour

After four years with the then broadsheet Daily Express, the only newspaper at that time to give space and importance to photographs, Bryan Wharton joined the Sunday Times at the beginning of 1964. The Sunday Times, under the new ownership of Roy Thomson ( later Lord Thomson), was shedding it's sedate image, and was seeking news trained photographers to join it`s young team of reporters.

This proved to be a fortunate move, for The Sunday Times became the most exciting newspaper, in a most remarkably eventful period. "It was a privelige to work with the highest level of talent especially under the Editorship of Harry Evans" During the next 19 years Wharton travelled to a many parts of the World, and most of Britain and Ireland. He photographed everything from Ballet through to War, met Scoundrels through to Saints. His work was published in all the major magazines, Life, Paris Match, Stern, etc..

In 1992, having previously taken part in many exhibitions, he was persuaded by colleagues, and a generous sponsor, to attempt a one-man show in London. It proved to be a success, and thereafter was shown in Dublin at the Writers Museum and in many Galleries and Museums since. In 2001 the National Portrait Gallery exhibited some of more than twenty photographs of his that they have acquired for their collection. The pictures shown on the Gallery pages of this site were chosen by the photographer from the above exhibitions and publications.