Christopher Simon Sykes
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Christopher Simon Sykes is well-known as a photographer of country houses and gardens, working for magazines such as WORLD OF INTERIORS, ENGLISH AND AMERICAN VOGUE, VANITY FAIR, AND HOUSE AND GARDEN, as well as having published over fifteen books on this subject, such as THE GREAT HOUSES OF ENGLAND AND WALES, ENGLISH COUNTRY, AT HOME WITH BOOKS and THE GARDENS OF BUCKINGHAM PALACE. he has also toured as a photographer with the Rolling Stones and acted as ghost writer for Eric Clapton on CLAPTON: THE AUTOBIGORAPHY. He has just published the first volume of a new two-part biography of David Hockney, authorised, though not commissioned, by the artist, who has given over 20 hours of interviews as well as access to all his friends and family.

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The Other Side of Marie Colvin

Posted 23 February 2012 | 23/02/12 00:00

John Witherow, Marie Colvin's editor, recently said this of her: "she was much more than a war reporter. She was a woman with a tremendous joie de vivre, full of humour and mischief and surrounded by a large circle of friends, all of whom feared the consequences of her bravery."...

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My Neighbour, David Hockney

Posted 14 December 2011 | 14/12/11 00:00

At the beginning of January, 2012, the words "David Hockney" are going to be on everyone's lips. This is because he is the star of one of the biggest shows of the work of a single artist ever mounted by London's Royal Academy.

This will not be a retrospective,...

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