cident, it was finally recognized that levels of irradiation among Welsh sheep were too high for human safety. Sheep from parts of Wales still cannot be sold for domestic consumption. Wales. 1986.

“I have walked that street many a time - I know exactly how the sheep and Peter must have felt.” - David Hurn

“Remembering Peter Marlow, I surf through his work: his images, one after another speak of a journey uncluttered and uncomplicated. Peter had the knack of picking up a moment so instinctively, with the immediacy of responding to it right now, as if the next step or choice would contaminate its silence. For instance, in this photograph of two sheep, it is as if they were designed to be walking on the edge of the pavement with all the architectural lines leading us into a quiet dynamism. You may recompose it differently, but the simplicity and silence of it all will remind us of a mystery: that he came and went away so suddenly. ”- Raghu Rai © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

was with him at this race riot in London, and also photographed the arrest, but this time he probably got the better photograph.” - Chris Steele-Perkins © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

lection of who he was. The Peter I knew was a kind, gentle, and thoughtful human being. The picture I chose is one I had never seen before. It is simply a beautiful and poetic photograph.” - Constantine Manos © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

stayed many nights and days at Gee Street and always enjoyed the warm family atmosphere in their beautiful loft. I’m not sure but I think I was there when this picture was taken." - Carl De Keyzer © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

with flight and airplanes. His ability to find beauty and form in almost anything was exceptional. His work on the Concorde embodied that. This particular image, with its dark melancholy, is maybe not the most typical of his imagery, but I was somehow immediately drawn to it after Peter’s passing.” - Jonas Bendiksen © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

era’. The elegant tension that emerges from Peter's images, and especially the one I have chosen, influenced me a lot. The complexity of his compositions, his distance and restraint, give many levels of reading to Peter’s images. I understood the meaning of photographic writing. Even today, this photography often comes to my mind when I take photographs.” – Jerome Sessini © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

a long time. Brilliant.” - Donovan Wylie

“Peter’s photographs are succinct and quietly, but surely, pierce through the surface. The Liverpool series is my favorite - painfully beautiful.” - Alessandra Sanguinetti © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

ful archive Peter left behind. I have chosen an image that makes me smile. I have always loved the work Peter made in Liverpool. I admire his capability of mixing rough images with those that have a lot of humour. There are so many layers we can find in one body of work. Wonderful. I wish I could have got to know Peter better.” - Bieke Depoorter

“I was not even aware of this image and fully expected to choose something from his more recent work with which I was more familiar. But when I saw this image I was reminded of what I knew and respected about Peter: intelligence, humor and dignity. I feel honored to have been in the company of Peter as a colleague. But I feel far more fortunate to be able to call him a friend. Miss you, Peter.” - Chris Anderson

“I feel that this image is a reflection of Peter's consistently gentle yet sharp observation. No matter what the photograph’s format or proportion might be, Peter got it inside out!” - Chien-Chi Chang © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

my arrival in Magnum, his kindness was genuine and interest sincere. Peter travelled the world as one of the best-known British photojournalists of his generation, but I find myself drawn to his quieter and more intimate work, mostly the urban and rural landscapes that he produced in England, his home country.” - Moises Saman © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

folio is all square. This is my preferred one, a vintage Peter with his controlled space and lighting, and its sense of color. But above all, I like its quiet British humour.” - Abbas © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

tography. He was a person of many talents including the talent of observing the ordinary, in which lies the strength of the still image.” - Larry Towell © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

d his ability of razor sharp framing. But contrary to Peter, the Concorde lacked all sense of humor, so I don’t mind the empty space it left behind. And I sure miss the space Peter occupied amongst us” - John Vink © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

ith his family photographs. What a punch in the gut. His tender pictures of his boys made me ache as both a parent and as a photographer. They also made me wish I could have spent more time with Peter.” - Alec Soth

I’ve always loved Peter’s family pictures. It’s as if he was trying to preserve the people in his life who were most precious to him, while celebrating those precious morsels of time spent together. In 2007 I was charged with assessing Peter’s work for the Magnum Magnum book. It was an intimidating task because, as I was soon to learn, Peter had more pictures in Magnum’s archive than anyone else. I spent several weeks looking through every picture, searching backwards, beginning with the most recent and ending at the start of his career. It was a strange experience watching Fiona, Max, Theo and Felix grow younger, the children eventually ceasing to exist altogether. At certain ages the boys looked exactly the same, history seemingly repeating itself thrice over. Peter was a much-underrated photographer and I trust that in his (tragically early) passing he will finally get the recognition he deserves. But we can be sure, looking at his wonderful family photographs, that he was a never an underrated father.” - Mark Power © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

ts and assignments around the world, though I was entirely taken by the images of his family. I found myself remembering pieces of my childhood - learning to dive, in a jacuzzi with mom, playing with a train set. Play fighting, as in this image that Peter took of his sons Max and Felix. I did not know Peter well but I see that Peter lived a full life, one that he was aware of living as he documented it in all its mystery.” - Michael Christopher Brown © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

e Peter for a job in Mexico, one of the only jobs Peter and few others in Magnum can do (not me). He couldn't finish it because apparently he was already sick. When I got to Mexico I tried to replicate how Peter would photograph, they showed me what he was doing, at the end I just had to try and compliment his work. I tried not to interfere too much with my photography: the client had chose and loved Peter's work. While I was working there I realized how incredible Peter was in being able to come out with pearls out of nothing. I spent my week there breaking my head on empty tables and glass walls, waiting for the days to pass by. It's all about generosity.” - Alex Majoli © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

and's Anglican cathedrals using only natural light at dawn. Marlow's photographs are accompanied by his commentary on the project, including sketches and preparatory shots; an introduction by V&A senior photography curator Martin Barnes on the tradition of church photography in England, and a concise summary of each cathedral interior by architectural historian John Goodall. England, GB. 2012.

“The night after Coventry was decimated by incendiary devices dropped by the Luftwaffe on November 14, 1940, the decision was made by church leaders to rebuild the cathedral. This act of courage led to the cathedral's ministry of peace and reconciliation, which continues to this day. This photograph of a modern sacred space, by Peter, is a tribute and testament to the resilience of the British people, and especially the people of faith in Coventry.” - Steve McCurry © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

chines sold to China. I find this work outstanding. It says a lot about different, important topics. I remember Peter showing me the works and he was frustrated that there had not been any decent publications. What counts to me in photography and art, in general, is personality. I always recognize Peter’s composition. I selected these pictures out of 600. I hope there will be a great publication soon.” - Harry Gruyaert © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

omeone's absence? Peter brings to my mind a fine sense of architectural structure in the minute details of life. And around the corner, a sudden outburst of warmth, like a family holiday near the sea.” - Nikos Economopoulos © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

Magnum photographers I had the most respect for. The work was strong and he was strong. His work documenting cathedrals in Great Britain was poignant and beautiful. He was able to capture the essence of the spirituality of the space.” - Bruce Davidson © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

but I think somewhere it should be said and shown, how much of a responsible family man Peter was! He took photographs of the different families he cared for: the Family of Men, the Magnum Family and his own, the Marlow-Naylor Family. I remember when we were working on the Magnum Time project in the UK how he cared about Magnum Photos, its history and its traditions. At the same time I was so impressed by how he took care of his own family as well - it left a deep impression on me - in a time of so much selfishness in the world.” - Marco Bischof © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

did. They both sadly passed away within a very short time of each other. While Peter has many images that are even more touching, it is the feeling that these two greats met and shared the intimacy of making a portrait, and the fact that they are now both gone, that makes me want to highlight this picture by Peter.” - Newsha Tavoklian © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

these pictures properly when Peter was still with us. The photographs bring me both joy and sorrow. Joy to find these moments, sorrow in our loss.” - Stuart Franklin © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

h assignments, keeping an eye on what I was up to - and for the organisation in general. But as well as taking care of the London office, the young photographers and his many assignments and projects, Peter was of course an actual father too. His vast archives of family photographs are a wonderful testament to that role. We see the boys playing games, on the beach, around the house, with their mother. The pictures are taken with both a dedication to his craft and the affection of a father.” - Olivia Arthur © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

whose work I didn’t know that well. The first time I remember seeing his pictures was when he covered the Kosovo war from an aircraft carrier, something, as someone who was on the ground among dozens of photographers in the midst of the action, I found such a wonderfully different angle. But among all these stories, what struck me over and over again were his family pictures. Their candour, warmth, love and quirk. They are a beautiful line through the years of his work, interrupted way, way too early.” - Thomas Dworzak © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

'MOBY...The Movie'. Peter Marlow used a Super-8 movie camera during this portrait shoot, in the garden of the Hempel Hotel, to photograph the American Rockstar Moby, in London to promote his new album '18'. His previous album 'Play' sold over ten million copies worldwide. Stills from the Super-8 film have been blown-up to create this unusual selection of images. London, England, GB. 2002.

“My introduction to Peter Marlow, when I was starting out as a photographer, was through his work on Liverpool and later I felt a connection to those beautiful photos of his family. Although, I had met him only briefly for a moment at the AGM in 2015, I had never really gotten to know him. Whatever I could make up of him as a person was based solely on all that I had heard from the few people working at the London office who knew him and who spoke very highly of him, and, of course, his quiet and gentle demeanour that seemed to somehow organically extend into the way he looked at the world. All of that had helped me construct a personality, though a fictional one, through which I could only guess what he must have been like. But because he was about my father's age I had completely forgotten to think of him as being cool. After all, why would anyone who even vaguely reminded me of my father ever be cool? That is, until I found his portraits of Moby, the ones on the super 8's. I absolutely love them. They may not be beautiful like his other work in the traditional sense but in some ways they are even more special to me because, for someone who had long developed a particularly beautiful and elegant structure within which he had shown us the world, I loved the fact that Peter wasn't restricted by those very structures.” - Sohrab Hura © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

ed a leading role in the Rodger family, not only because he took such good pictures, but because he became a sort of model for the young Rodgers. His visits to George in Kent were always great occasions. ‘He is flying from London on his own!’ The boys were thrilled. They had met Peter when they were very young and admired the tall, dark-haired handsome man who let them carry his cameras and focus on the church steeple across the road. Peter's visits were not all about Magnum’s pros and cons, or the latest 35mm lens. He also talked about airplanes! All the kinds of airplanes that he had flown in or flown himself! Who could forget the memorable visit when Peter flew himself to Kent and landed at our nearby tiny airfield? Who could forget those visits? Peter's ease and interest in our boys made us all very happy when eventually Peter had three of his own. So my choice, and I am sure it would have been George's as well, of photographs to remember Peter by, is of Concorde, bursting upwards through a blue sky to heaven. Bless you Peter.” - Jinx Rodger © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

ph just in front of our place.” - Bruno Barbey © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

kenwell area of London. In the summer of 1999, Fiona and Peter created a large garden on the roof of the apartment. With cedar decking and river pebbles from Scotland. Their home is a conversion of a whole floor of an old, industrial building, built in 1952, which used to be a warehouse for silk and then later a printing works for the oil company BP. Gee Street, London, GB. 1999.

“Looking through Peter's archive I was touched by his images of his own family, living and growing up in Gee Street. Images I have never seen before. This image was taken at his home just above the Magnum office that he invested so much in. Just on top of the office - all this love for his family. So Human. Thank you Peter.” - Jacob Aue Sobol © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

es, d’un souvenir, Peter émerge en moi sans que je m'y attende. Comme ça. Chaleureusement, humainement. Sans même penser spécialement à Magnum ! C’est ainsi. A bientôt - Some traces, the wind, the silence. Sometimes, on the line of a combination of ideas and memories, Peter emerges in me unexpectedly. Like that. Warmly, humanly. Without even thinking specifically about Magnum! This is how. A bientôt.” - Jean Gaumy © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

taken in Peter’s simple and elegant way, of a phenomenon both ridiculous and admirable, moving even. Peter didn’t impose a point of view on you, but carefully put before you, with studied neutrality, elements of the world in all their magnificent ambivalence.” - Richard Kalvar © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

But I love this self-portrait, which reminds me of what a constantly warm, generous and engaging presence Peter was throughout my time in Magnum. And how much I wish I'd known him back then when this was taken, so that our time together could have been longer.” - Michael Subotzky © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

verpool, I see an unflinching but deeply tender approach that quietly presents the unfairness of lives marked by few choices. In these images, I sense his frustration and anger, but also love.” - Matt Black © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

we moved to London him and Fiona were so generous in helping set up our new life in the city. Fiona helped us secure a place at a wonderful little school for our daughter, Luna, and we always remember the day we spent all together at their beach home. A few months ago, Peter gave me a copy of his beautiful book on Liverpool and even though I knew some of the images I had not realised the depth and accomplishment of that work. Among the many pictures I love, I choose this one. As well as being an exceptional photograph it also speaks of Peter'a warmth and sense of family.” - Paolo Pellegrin

”I chose this picture because I think family meant a lot for Peter who was often photographing his own family or that of the others. Peter Marlow dedicated himself a lot to Magnum, another family. I remember something he told me once, after I took distance from Magnum for a while: ‘Come back home’.” - Patrick Zachmann © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

ter's celebrated book ‘Liverpool, Looking out to Sea.’ I always remember photographers with their books, and I was living in Liverpool around this time, so it really felt like here was a pair of eyes seeing different things to me, which makes his vision so fresh and appealing.” - Martin Parr © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

ality, this is a burnt out children’s playground, I see the wreck of a frigate on the misty Mersey mud banks 200 years ago.” - Ian Berry © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

so it was a surprise and somewhat of a revelation to go through this box of dark, moody night scenes –atmospheric images suggestive of some yet-to-be-made film noir.” - Alex Webb © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

years later, it has been transformed by massive commercial and residential development, making this a unique and historic record of London's dockland past. London, England, GB.

“In 1982 (before he shifted to the square format), Peter showed me this set of pictures of London by night and I really liked them. Peter had left news photography behind and this project seemed to me at the time a radical shift and an attempt at describing his emotional landscape.” - Gilles Peress © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

arricades are once more dividing Catholics and Protestants in areas of Belfast and Londonderry. Northern Ireland, GB. 1979.

”My passion in life other than photography is cricket, and indeed most cricketers are passionate about the game. In cricket, Peter and I had shared a common interest, which is why I chose this photograph of Peters. No matter what the circumstances, park cricketers always seem to find a way to keep on playing. Strange, surreal, yet absolutely necessary. Great innings live long in the memory, and judging by the incredible experiences and subsequent photographs Peter packed into his life, his work will continue to live on long in our memories. Aside from his work, Peter was just an all round great bloke.” - Trent Parke © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

recognisable prisoners for a feature published in the London Sunday Times Magazine. Prisoners gave their consent with signed releases being filed at the Home Office. Known in the 1980s as ‘Grisly Risley’ by prisoners, Risley opened as a remand centre for male and female inmates in 1964. Cheshire, Warrington, England, GB. Chosen by Antoine D'Agata © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

”Peter’s choice of camera and the square format is rare among Magnum photographers. But Peter liked simplicity and he had a very special sense of humor. He saw things most people would ignore in daily life. His sparse compositions will not trigger loud laughter but a warm smile. His pictures are unique.” - Thomas Hoepker © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

. It’s very surprising in how it elegantly captures a timeless, expressive moment, but what I especially love is the way he frames the image further, by naming the site with a caption that adds an ironic touch.” - Susan Meiselas © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

oden Moor. Richmond, North Yorkshire, England, GB. 2005. © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos

full. We ended up sleeping on cardboard boxes outside the station - I woke at 6 in the morning - Peter was already up taking photographs - another great adventure - we had many more." - Chloe Marlow © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos