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Peter Marlow: A Life in Pictures

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Peter Marlow Sheep in the village of Blaennau Ffestiniog, Wales. They walk the village streets during winter, as the tarmac is warmer than the surrounding fields and hills. A year after the Chernobyl nuclear ac (...)
Peter Marlow Police making an arrest during the race riots in Lewisham. London, England, GB. 1977.

When I first met Peter he was a top rate photojournalist, before he found his more personal voice. I (...)
Peter Marlow 7am outside Hamilton Square Station. Birkenhead, Liverpool, GB. November 5, 1985.

“Looking through Peter's work I was amazed at the elegance, restraint and craft in his photographs: a ref (...)
Peter Marlow Felix and Max Naylor Marlow on Felix's second birthday. Gee Street, London, GB. 2001.

"I never saw my own kids grow up. Peter was a great photographer but also a very dedicated father. I (...)
Peter Marlow Concorde taking off in the days prior to it retiring from service in October 2003. Heathrow Airport, London, GB. 2003.

”I have always been able to identify a lot with Peter’s fascination (...)
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Watching Liverpool FC lose 1-0 to Manchester United. Anfield, England, GB. December 1986.

”When I started photography, I discovered the work of Peter Marlow in the Swiss magazine ‘Cam (...)
Peter Marlow The Liverpool Project. Liverpool, England, GB. March. 1985.

“This was the first image I saw by Peter, I loved it, and still do; it has this hyperrealism to it, I can watch this image for (...)
Peter Marlow Waiting for the WRVS (Women's Royal Voluntary Service) to arrive with lunch. Tower Hill, Kirkby, Liverpool, GB. December 1986.

"I find it difficult to take out one picture from the beauti (...)
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The demolition of what was once the largest grain silo in the world. Brunswick Dock, Liverpool, England, GB. August. 1990.

“I will always be grateful of how welcoming Peter was since (...)
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Cafe with a painting of the Concorde. Lydd airport, Kent, GB. 2001.

“Peter was most at ease with the square format of which he became a master, so much so that his online Magnum port (...)
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A fish and chip stall inside the New Brighton fair. Liverpool, England, GB. August. 1990.

“This picture of a fish and chips stall in Liverpool typifies Peter’s daily life style of pho (...)
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Concorde memorabilia at Christmas. England, GB. 2003.

"The Concorde gave off a sense of perfection. No wonder Peter was seduced by it: it matched his own desire of precision; it fitte (...)
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Max putting on his sun cream. Peter Marlow and family on holiday. Galicia, Spain. 2003.

“While I’ve always admired Peter’s work, it was only after his passing that I became familiar w (...)
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Max (12yrs.) and Felix (7 yrs.) play fighting on holiday with Peter Marlow on holiday. Norfolk Broads, England, GB.

“Peter has an archive of many powerful photographs taken on projec (...)
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Students without their own electricity have to revise in public places during the evenings. Port au Prince, Haiti. 1975.

“Last year I got a call from the office asking me to substitut (...)
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Coventry Cathedral (St Michael’s). from 'The English Cathedral', a Book published by Merrell in October 2012. Between 2010 and 2012 Peter Marlow photographed the Nave's of all forty-two of Engl (...)
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Longbridge Rover Plant. Birmingham, England, GB. 2006.

”In 2005, Peter had this great idea about photographing the Rover car plants in Birmingham, which had been dismantled and the ma (...)
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A family holiday in Greece. Peter Marlow with his partner Fiona Naylor and their children, Max (14yrs.), Felix (9yrs.) and Theo (4yrs.). Zakynthos, Greece. 2008.

“How do you codify s (...)
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Salisbury Cathedral (Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary), from 'The English Cathedral', a book published by Merrell in October 2012. England, GB. 2012.

“Peter is one of the (...)
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Opening presents on Christmas morning with Peter Marlow's family at The Experimental Station, the family weekend home. Dungeness, Kent, England, GB. 2008.

“I don’t know how to put it, (...)
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The architect Zaha Hadid. London, England, GB. 2006.

”As I was browsing through Peter's work in search of a favorite, I came across his portrait of the Iraqi-British architect Zaha Ha (...)
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The view from Mont St. Michel on a family holiday. Normandy, France. 2006.

“In Peter’s family photographs I find a warmth and intimacy on a wholly other level. I wish I’d appreciated (...)
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Dungeness. Kent, GB.

”I always saw Peter as something of a father figure in Magnum, both for myself coming in as a young photographer - lending equipment, teaching me how to deal wit (...)
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Felix Naylor Marlow in Fiona's high heels. Gee Street, London, GB. 2005.

”Since Peter died I have been digging through his pictures in Cortex. In a way he was among the photographers (...)
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'MOBYThe 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 ne (...)
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Concorde landing, after the BA002 flight from New York, prior to the aircraft retiring from service in October 2003. Heathrow Airport, London, GB.

“For over forty years Peter has play (...)
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In the Alps near Chamonix. Argentiere, France. 2001.

“Peter and Fiona and their 3 sons spent Christmas holiday with us in 2001 near Chamonix, in the French Alps. He took that photogra (...)
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Marlow’s son, Max, who was then six years old, plays in his pyjamas, with some pebbles and makes a 'heart' shape on the deck at the 'Loft' apartment of Peter Marlow and Fiona Naylor in the Cler (...)
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A view over shingle, the largest expanse of it in Western Europe. Romney Marsh, Dungeness, Kent, GB. 1996.

”Des traces, le vent, le silence. Parfois, au détour d’une association d’idé (...)
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The hotel staff bow to leaving visitors. Because competition is so fierce, hotels try to be as hospitable as possible. Wakayama Project. Japan. 1998.

“I’ve always loved this picture, (...)
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Peter Marlow. Cornwall, GB. 1989.

“Looking through his archive again, it is clear that Peter has so many great photographs from before and after I met him. So it is too hard to choose. (...)
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Sheil Road market on a Sunday morning. Liverpool, England, GB. January, 1988.

”I met Peter only once, but his warmth and integrity made a strong impression on me. In his work from Li (...)
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Tony and Marie, unemployed, in their children's bedroom. Heathfield Road, Tower Hill, Kirkby, Liverpool, GB. October, 1985.

”Like all of us I am still shocked at Peter's passing. When (...)
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Scavenger on his way home with a bag full of copper wire to weigh in at a local scrap yard at Bidston Moss tip, Birkenhead. Liverpool, GB. April, 1985.

“Here's the cover image from Pe (...)
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A burnt-out children's playground. Childwall Valley, Liverpool, GB. December, 1985.

”I’ve always liked and admired this image from a great take Peter did on Liverpool. Although, in re (...)
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Public space on The Isle of Dogs. London, GB. 1982.

“Many years ago, Peter Marlow showed me some of his prints from the Isle of Dogs. At the time, I only knew his journalistic work, (...)
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As part of a project sponsored and exhibited by The Photographer's Gallery to photograph London by Night, Peter Marlow chose as his main focus ‘The Isle of Dogs', in the London Docklands. Many (...)
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A soldier of the 3rd Anglian Regiment stands guard over an inter-regiment cricket match at Hollywood Barracks near Belfast. Ten years after the arrival of British troops in the province, the b (...)
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A prisoner at HM Prison Risley is visited by friends and family. With writer Russell Miller, in 1981, the British Home office gave Peter Marlow permission for the first time ever to photograph (...)
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Students watching the Eton Wall Game, a vigorous hybrid of rugby union and football played since 1766 on Ascension Day, between two opposing teams of students. Eton School, Windsor, GB.
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Peter Marlow Chosen by Felix Naylor Marlow. Felix Naylor Marlow learning how to dive on a family summer holiday near Calvi. Corsica, France. 2005. © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos
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A wasteland on the Isle of Dogs, created from the mud removed during the building of the London Docks. Isle of Dogs, London, GB.

”Here’s one image I was thinking of to remember Peter (...)
Peter Marlow Chosen by Max Naylor Marlow. Swiftcurrent Lake near Many Glacier in the Glacier National Park. Montana, USA. © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos
Peter Marlow Chosen by Fiona Naylor. A family Christmas at the Landmark Trust Property, The Culloden Tower. Culloden Tower was built in 1746 to commemorate the Hanovarian victory over the Jacobite Scots at Cull (...)
Peter Marlow Chosen by Theo Naylor Marlow. Peter Marlow's son Theo in the shower with his mother, Fiona. The Experimental Station. Dungeness, Kent, GB. 2010. © Peter Marlow | Magnum Photos
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Chloe Marlow and Peter Marlow. Tuscany, Italy. 1993.

"Peter and I on another road trip through Italy. At the end of this train journey we arrived in Grosseto to find all the hotels (...)