Roger Mayne b. 1929 (BAA 1966-69) Born in Cambridge. 1947-5I Balliol College, Oxford, degree in Chemistry. 1951 first photographs published Picture Post. 1953 first one-man exhibition Leeds Camera Club; visited St Ives, met Terry Frost, Roger Hilton, Patrick Heron etc, photographed many St Ives artists during the 1950’s. 1957 moved to studio in Addison Avenue, W11. Freelance photographer for The Times Educational Supplement, The Observer, Queen, Vogue etc. Began to photograph children in the streets of W11/W10 notably Southam Street between 1956-61 (Southam Street Album donated to V&A, by Mayne 1977). 1958 wrote article for Amateur Photographer 'Corsham Art School’ following visit to Corsham, 1957. ‘I had already taken odd shots in studios of friends and in art galleries; but this . . . was my first full-scale excursion into the subject. Studios are fascinating to me because of their individuality and their particular kind of disorder: also, artists often have good faces - at Corsham there were plenty of pretty girls among the students. Artists or students soon get used to one’s presence, because of the concentration on their work. I take the scene as I find it, and wait for whatever opportunities come my way. I think the photographs would cease to be authentic if I arranged them to any degree’. Wrote ‘Bath Academy of Art Corsham Court and its Experimental School’, TES 21.2.58. 1956 first London one-man exhibition, ICA and George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. His photographs used on many jackets of books from the late ‘50s including 34 covers for Penguin and Pelican. 1962 married playwrite Ann Jellicoe. 1962 & 65 photographed in Spain and Greece. 1963 first colour photographs appeared in The Sunday Times. 1964 commissioned series of colour photographs for Milan Triennale. 1966-69 taught BAA. Commissioned by John Piper to photograph The Shell Guide to Devon, text Ann Jellicoe published 1975; moved to Dorset. 1978 Landscape Photographs ICA (touring); 1985 photographs used in St Ives 1939-64, Tate Gallery; 1986 The Street Photographs of Roger Mayne V&A.