10. Facts About Hedgecoe
• Born March 24th 1932 in Brentford, west London.
Died of cancer aged 78 on the 3rd June 2010
• Award-winning British Photographer
• Established the Photography Department in 1965 at
the Royal College of Art
• photographs appear in permanent collections at the
New York Museum of Modern Art and the London's
National Portrait Gallery
• Took a picture of the Queen in June 1967
11. Facts About Hedgecoe (Continued)
• His father, William, a banker who worked in the far
east gave him his first camera for his 14th birthday.
• Wrote a novel called Breakfast With Dolly in 1996
(Dolly was the name of the aunt with whom he lived)
• In 1957, he enrolled at the Guildford School of Art to
study under the pioneering photographer Joy Thomas,
who frowned upon the use of 35mm cameras.
• Spent much of his free time shooting his own Photos
• In the1960s, he employed an assistant, Angela
Chadwyck-Healey
• Met Julia Mardon during their first year at Guildford
and they married in 1960
• author of more than 30 books on photography