10 Facts About Fay Godwin

Fay Godwin was a British photographer known for her black-and-white landscapes of the British countryside and coast.

Fay Godwin produced portraits of dozens of well-known writers, photographing almost every significant literary figure in 1970s and 1980s England, as well as numerous visiting foreign authors.

Fay Godwin's work was informed by the sense of ecological crisis present in late 1970s and 1980s England.

Fay Godwin said, in a 2001 interview, that this was the book she would like to be most remembered for.

Fay Godwin was the subject of a documentary, broadcast on The South Bank Show on 9 November 1986.

Fay Godwin was awarded an honorary fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in 1990 and had a major retrospective at the Barbican Centre in London in 2001.

Fay Godwin attended nine different schools before beginning a career as a travel representative.

Fay Godwin married publisher Tony Godwin in 1961; the couple had two sons, Jeremy and Nicholas.

Fay Godwin died on 27 May 2005, in Hastings, England at the age of 74.

Fay Godwin's archive, including approximately 11,000 exhibition prints, the entire contents of her studio, and correspondence with some of her subjects, was given to the British Library.