Jorge Lewinski (1921 - 2008)

RA Collection: People and Organisations

Photographer. Jorge Lewinski was born in 1921 in Lwow, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine). He moved to Britain in 1942, becoming a professional photographer in 1968. He also taught photography at the London College of Printing and later founded his own School of Photography in South London.After documenting contemporary artists over a number of years, Lewinski stopped taking photographs in 1995. In 2005, the Royal Academy published ‘Portrait of the Artist: Photographs by Jorge Lewinski’ after an his exhibition ‘Jorge Lewinski Photographs: Icons of British Art’ in the Friends Room in 2004.