Ian Berry made his reputation as a photojournalist with his reporting from South Africa. In 1960, he was the only photographer to document the massacre at Sharpeville. His photographs were subsequently used in the trial proving the victim’s innocence.

While based in Paris he was invited to join Magnum in 1962 by Henri Cartier-Bresson. He moved to London in 1964 to become the first contract photographer for the Observer Magazine.

Assignments have taken him worldwide documenting Russia’s invasion of Czechoslovakia, conflicts in Israel, Ireland, Vietnam and Zaire, famine in Ethiopia and apartheid in South Africa, the latter which inspired two books, Black and Whites L’Afrique du Sud and Living Apart.

Ian Berry has won numerous awards throughout his photographic career. Awards include; the first Nikon Photographer of the Year, Picture of the Year Award from the National Press Photographers of America, British Press Magazine Photographer of the Year and the first Arts Council Grant which led to his acclaimed book, The English. Ian resides in Buckinghamshire, England.

See Ian Berry’s photographs looking at climate change and physical environment.