PHOTOGRAPHERS

“The Dean of UK jazz and blues photographers”  Mojo Magazine

Terry Cryer has a way with a camera like no-one else; timeless, intuitive, effortless, iconic and alluring. His images and unique printing techniques tell stories that words could never define. Cryer’s stunning portraits of the great jazz and blues musicians of the 1950s capture the essence of the  time and create a compelling insight into the key figures in this revolutionary movement.

“His pictures are jazz classics” The Guardian

Cryer’s 1958 portrait of Muddy Waters is featured on the Mississippi Blues Trail to mark the legendary musician’s cabin at the Delta while Sammy Davis Jnr was so enamoured with Cryer’s photograph, taken in a London nightclub in 1960, that he would go onto use it as his publicity shot throughout the 1960s. Cryer’s photographs are held in distinguished international collections including the Henry Ransom Center at the University of Texas and collectors and admirers of his work include Sir Paul McCartney and Jools Holland.

For more information on Terry Cryer’s exhibition: http://www.look2011.co.uk/whats-on/terry-cryer-william-ellis/

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