PHILIP BERMINGHAM ON THE JOB
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Book Review:
s society catapults further into the digital age, seeing images printed and bound in books becomes rarer and rarer. Yet, every week I must digest thousands of photographs scrolling through the BIPP’s social media feeds and sourcing content for the upcoming magazine. So it was a pleasant surprise when I got a phone call from over the pond from Philip Bermingham, an English-born photographer who, after working the beat as a police officer in Liverpool, emigrated to the States and, in 1980, opened his first photography studio in Washington, D.C.
After our chat, where we shared a connection to the city of Liverpool and our love of photography, the next week, a humungous, beautifully printed book arrived at the BIPP office from the Washington-based photographer made up of his career portfolio working in America’s capital. Alongside his work as a photographer, Philip has sat on several boards of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and is an Honorary Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
On the Job, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Queen Elizabeth II
Comedian & TV host, Jay Leno
Front cover image © Philip Bermingham
© Philip Bermingham
36 the PHOTOGRAPHER / 2023 / Issue One
