Clive Arrowsmith

Clive Arrowsmith is a London based , celebrated international photographer Photography became an obsession for Clive Arrowsmith while serving as a graphic designer and art director for television productions throughout England.

Unable to find a photographer to produce much-needed images to accompany his graphic designs, Clive decided to teach himself.

Fascinated by lighting, he turned to the Renaissance painters he had studied while in art school to help guide his work as a photographer. It is the chiaroscuro in painting that continues to influence his work even today.

After several well-placed commissions for Town Magazine and Nova, Arrowsmith quickly moved into shooting for high-end fashion publications like Harpers, Tatler, Vogue and F.T. Colour magazine.

Clive Arrowsmith has since become one of Britain's most revered fashion, beauty and portrait photographers.

Exploring the many different genres of photography, he is now equally renowned for his still lives, landscapes and his work on record sleeves and music videos.

Over the years, he has worked with such artists as Def Lepperd, Chthonic, Art Garfunkel, Fleetwood Mac, Boz Scaggs, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Kate Bush, Wings, Jamirequi, Lee Griffiths and others.

He is the only photographer to have been commissioned to photograph the Pirelli Calendar for two years in succession.