Nigel Snowdon (b.1934 - d.2013) Diana Burnett

The great Australian motor sporting photographer Nigel Snowdon began photographing motor racing ‘down under’ while working as a Qantas engineer. He came to Europe in the early 1960s and thereafter shot beautiful-quality material for myriad publications worldwide.  During that time his work included photographing the Steve McQueen film, Le Mans and more than 450 Grand Prix races. Nigel and fellow photojournalist Diana Burnett worked as an inseparable team, eventually becoming man and wife. Together they captured a compelling and contemporary view of motor racing. Largely thanks to Diana Burnett’s incredibly diligent work, their negatives and colour transparencies are all fastidiously catalogued. Their work preserved within the GP Library Collection extends to tens of thousands of individual images, shot from 1988 into the present Century. Nigel Snowdon, like Geoffrey Goddard,  was an absolutely outstanding star photographer of his era.