Bryan Wharton

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**Bryan Wharton**
Born:	1939
Occupation(s):	Photographer
Nationality:	British
Website:	http://www.bryanwharton.com/

Bryan Wharton (born 1939) is a British photographer.

After four years with the then broadsheet Daily Express, the only newspaper at that time to give space and importance to photographs, Bryan Wharton joined the Sunday Times at the beginning of 1964. The Sunday Times, under the new ownership of Roy Thomson (later Lord Thomson), was shedding it's sedate image, and was seeking news trained photographers to join it`s young team of reporters. This proved to be a fortunate move, for The Sunday Times became the most exciting newspaper, in a most remarkably eventful period. "It was a privilege to work with the highest level of talent especially under the Editorship of Harry Evans" During the next 19 years Wharton travelled to a many parts of the World, and most of Britain and Ireland. He photographed everything from Ballet through to War, met Scoundrels through to Saints. His work was published in all the major magazines, Life, Paris Match, Stern, etc. In 1992, having previously taken part in many exhibitions, he was persuaded by colleagues, and a generous sponsor, to attempt a one-man show in London. It proved to be a success, and thereafter was shown in Dublin at the Writers Museum.

While Wharton was a war photographer (Lebanon, Egypt, Yemen, Cambodia) whose work in the Paris student riots of 1968 left him with CS gas-damaged lungs (he still wheezes slightly),it is his portraits of famous people, often savagely revealing, that endure.

Recently Wharton was approached by the National Portrait Gallery in London who have since purchased sixteen of his pictures for their collection.

Wharton lives in an old ecclesiatical building in Chelase, London