Timeline

1934
Born in Lancashire, England
1959
British Press Pictures, Feature Photographer of Year Award
1959
Nikon World Photo Contest Awards - 1st and 3rd
1960
British Press Pictures, Feature Photographer of Year Award
1962
Member of Magnum Photos
1969
Art Director's Club of New York Award
1974
Awarded British Arts Council's first major photographic bursary (led to his book, The English)
1977
Nikon Photographer of Year Award (first ever)
1981
1981 Pix of Year, magazine news, Award from Missouri School of Journalism and National Press Photographers of America
1990
Made Honorary Fellow, University of Lancashire
1996
Made Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society
2005
National photography magazine award for lifetime achievement in photography

Exhibitions

2009
South Africa update in Wales
2007
Visa Pour L’Image, Perpignan – Child Slavery
2007
The Lowry Gallery - Water
2007
The Lowry Gallery – The North
2007
Guardian Gallery – A Look at Colour Magazines
2004
Living Apart at the Royal Armoury Museum, Leeds
2004
South Africa at the Brunei Gallery, London
2001
English Revisited at Focus Gallery, London
1998
Exhibition at Museum of Photography, Bradford
1997
Exhibition at Aix en Provence literary week
1996
Living Apart, Royal Photographic Society, Bath, England
1995
Main exhibition at Visa Pour L’Image, Perpignan
1986
The English, XYZ Gallery, Belgium
1986
South Africa, FNAC Gallery, Paris
1985
Contemporary British Photography, Museum of Modern Art, Paris
1984
Britain in 1984, National Museum of Photography
1983
Geographic colour prints at Olympus Galleries, Paris and Hamburg
1982
Year of India, joint exhibition at National Theatre
1979
Participated Magnum Exhibition, Tokyo
1977
Exhibition Hamburg Culture House
1976
Solo colour exhibition at Paris Photo Fair
1976
The English, Photographer’s Gallery, London
1973
Inside Whitechapel, First Photographic Exhibition at Whitechapel Art Gallery
1972
Photographers' Gallery, London
1970
Personal Views, British Council Exhibition

Literature

2008
Sold into Slavery
2008
Mar (The Sea)
2006
Ian Berry, I Grandi Fotografi
1996
Living Apart (Phaidon) text by Archbishop Desmond Tutu
1992
Book on fishing port of Vigo
1991
Spanish book for Hologramme, Paris
1990
In Our Time: The World As Seen by MAGNUM Photographers
1989
Les Grands Travaux (book of modern French architecture)
1988
L’Afrique du Sud with text by Francois Mitterrand
1981
World Photography: 25 Great Photographers (by Bryn Campbell)
1978
The English (Penguin and Allen Lane)
1960
Book on black stage musical, King Kong