Michael Brennan
Photographer · London
"His archive is a who's who of 20th century cultural history — rock gods, sporting legends, and world leaders captured with an instinctive, journalistic eye."
Award-winning photographer Michael Brennan's work covers a wide range of historical events, celebrity portraits, candids and world-famous athletes. After winning the British News Picture of the Year for his coverage of the death of Donald Campbell in 1967 — an image featured in Life magazine — he went on to work for several leading newspapers and covered some of the most important events of the 20th century.
He was awarded British Photographer of the Year in 1969. His extraordinary archive includes images of Led Zeppelin, Freddie Mercury, Mick Jagger, President Jimmy Carter, Princess Diana, John Lennon, and sporting legends George Best, Pelé, George Foreman, Mike Tyson and Muhammad Ali.
Brennan's work has been featured in publications worldwide, including Sports Illustrated, Life, Rolling Stone, Stern, The New York Times, The Sunday Times, The Observer and The Times of London. His portrait of Muhammad Ali is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C.