Rare Images - Great Ideas

 
Chillingworth is the genuine article. He was one of the youngest media professionals whose work remains a living contribution to the story-telling era of British photographic journalism - an often misinterpreted genre. - He observes, "To watch today's brilliant image-makers attempting to re-inventing the wheel always generates a wry smile!"

Chillingworth gained invaluable experience as a much travelled National Magazine staff photographer. Later as a freelance with newspapers and magazines, as well as working for advertising clients, he was in demand until the 1970's. Then, as the visual communication partner in an advertising consultancy, he added the written word to his bank of creative skills..

The Getty Images' Hulton Archive holds four hundred of his picture essays from the days of
Picture Post., a UK picture magazine which, in its time, (1938 - 1957) used narrative photography to inform, entertain and influence the conscience of its million-plus readers. The National Media Museum also holds his images in its extensive archive.

Today, his credit-line can still be seen in national newspapers, when his images are supplied by the Getty Images Hulton Archive and photography remains his obsession. But his enterprise is directed toward the future, not the past, as the wind of change sweeps relentlessly through the photographic world.
 


Mending the nets - North Sea trawler crew, 1958
John Chillingworth Archive