13 Facts About Errol Sawyer

Errol Stanley Sawyer was an American photographer who lived and worked the last twenty two years of his life in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Errol Sawyer's father was an African American playwright, actor, director and producer whose family emigrated from Nassau, Bahamas, to Miami.

In 1950, Errol Sawyer moved with his mother and sister Wanda from Miami to Harlem, New York City, and three years later to The Bronx.

Errol Sawyer was in the 1960s a regular at Mickey Ruskin's club Max's Kansas City, where he met Jimi Hendrix, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, and Diane Arbus.

In 1968, Errol Sawyer found his vocation as a photographer while traveling in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

Errol Sawyer has cited photographers James Moore, Bill Silano, Richard Avedon, and Gosta Peterson as influences.

Errol Sawyer's photographs were published in magazines such as Depeche Mode, Elle, and French Vogue.

Errol Sawyer photographed the African-American painter Beauford Delaney and the American actresses Patti D'Arbanville, Jessica Lange, and Maria Schneider in Paris.

In 1978, Errol Sawyer returned to New York and worked for magazines such as New York Magazine, Working Women and US Vogue.

Errol Sawyer did beauty campaigns for Avon, Germaine Monteil and Max Factor.

Since 1984, Errol Sawyer has worked on commercial assignments and has done multicultural beauty projects for L'Oreal and Vis-A-Vis Magazine.

From 2006 until 2010, Errol Sawyer was a guest professor of photography at Technical University Delft in the Netherlands.

Errol Sawyer calls on our common sense to not allow our feelings to be crushed by the unbridled rush for consumption.