Andy Greenacre - Director of Photography, The Telegraph
Guest speaker, Andy Greenacre, is now the Director of Photography at The Telegraph and has been employed by The Telegraph for the past 5 years. His work and experience has developed from a weeks work experience at Mail on Sundays to interning at Magnum Photos, being given a permanent position there as a Picture Researcher to becoming a Director of Photography at The Telegraph.
Greenacre spoke about the history of the publication, how it has changed throughout the decades, experiences and work process of shooting for the front cover and photographers hired to shoot for The Telegraph.
The Telegraph’s first issue was published in September 1964. A key recognition throughout the decades is fashion has played a consistent part in many supplements and from the beginning of the issue.
In the 1980s for The Telegraph, Greenacre spoke about how colour reproduction gets better; mentioning that they’re crispier, clearer and the change in saturation. Steve McCurry photographed for the publication in that decade. McCurry is a part of Magnum Photos who is best and well known as a freelance Travel and Documentary photographer. He is the founder of a non-profit organisation named ImagineAsia, which he founded in 2004.
A decade later, 1990s, Andy Greenacre mentioned photographers that included Annie Leibovitz, Lorenzo Agius and Zed Nelson. Further research, I looked up Annie Leibovitz. From a biography written by Vanity Fair I discovered that she was born in 1949. Leibovitz studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute and took night classes, studying photography. Later on, she started working for Rolling Stone magazine, 1970. 3 years later, became their chief photographer and stayed for 10 years. By the end of her career at Rolling Stone magazine, Leibovitz had shot 142 covers. In 1983, she joined the staff of Vanity Fair. Just over 10 years later she began working for Vogue, 1998. As well as editorial work for magazines, she has created award-winning advertising campaigns.
In the 2000s, Andy Greenacre started describing the photographs as left field and artistic. He mentioned how The Telegraph and The BAFTAS started their collaboration. He also spoke about photographer, James Mollison.
Towards the end of the timeline, he mentioned Vivian Maier who was a black and white street photographer. They used one of her photographs from her archives on the front cover of their supplement. Tom Craig, Jonas Unger, Hollie Fernando and Mehdi Lacoste were photographers he named during his talk.
I wrote down, mainly, the name of photographers to do research into them, to find inspiration in their different styles.
