Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
Fay Godwin
Related My father was a businessman, but my mother was an intellectual. She cared about culture, politics, a... JORGE M. PEREZ My father was an interpreter for all the Latin American pilots at the naval base. He was very well e... PEPE SERNA I was born on 7 September 1917 at Sydney in Australia. My father was English-born and a graduate of ... JOHN CORNFORTH I was born in East Germany, before the wall came down. We sort of escaped, I guess. I grew up all ov... FALK HENTSCHEL My identity has always been confused. Born in Edinburgh of a Scottish/Russian/Jewish mother and an E... SARA SHERIDAN I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father... HAROLD FEINSTEIN As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father ... EUGENE JARECKI I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate. BEN SHAHN I was born in Hoboken. I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for Truth my obsessio... ALFRED STIEGLITZ My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor si... CORY BOOKER When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in German... ANSELM KIEFER I'm actually half Brit and half American. I have a British father and an American mother, but as... ADAM RAYNER My mother was actually born in Ohio but raised in West Virginia where her family had a laundry. She ... LAURENCE YEP My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa... DICHEN LACHMAN My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer. JAMES CAMERON My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a column... SIOBHAN FALLON HOGAN My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art. J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER There are co-ed schools in Saudi, but those are American or British. My dad, of course, believed in ... KARAN SINGH GROVER I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in s... BERNARD BECKETT My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer. LIZA MINNELLI She was in a very small town in Bavaria and after the war, when things settled down, she became an i... ROBERT NOLAN In Germany air became generally accepted Berlin in this area. It operated with 45 airplanes within t... NIKI LAUDA My own kids were with me in Berlin when Germany was reunited, and they were with me in Moscow when t... SERGE SCHMEMANN The world became a better place to live in after 11/9 [1989 - fall of Berlin wall] because each outb... THOMAS FRIEDMAN I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 15, 1916. My father, an electrical engineer, had come to... HERBERT A. SIMON I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pak... MAAJID NAWAZ The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father h... W. H. AUDEN The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father h... WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Having portrayed English-speaking Indian characters in British and American projects, I have always ... ART MALIK I was born on September 30, 1939, in Rosheim, a small medieval city of Alsace in France. My father, ... JEAN-MARIE LEHN I was born Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children - I had an older brothe... KIKI DEE In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakene... GASTON LACHAISE I'm a third-culture child. It's an interesting concept. Having an American father, a South A... MARIE-CHANTAL CLAIRE Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. GLORIA STEINEM I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sci... JACOB EPSTEIN All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent. DAVID HOCKNEY My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU ... BLAKE BAILEY My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist. ALEX GREY My father, born in Colorado, met my mother, born in Switzerland, when he went into the finance compa... SUSAN STRAIGHT My parents, fleeing a repressive regime in the Dominican Republic, were embraced by this country and... THOMAS PEREZ I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in S... TAIYE SELASI My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical enginee... DAVID LEE My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschw... JULIE SALAMON It was only after a while, after photographing mines and clear-cutting of forests in Maine, that I r... DAVID MAISEL Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My par... HUGH JACKMAN My father was a Jewish immigrant who settled in Argentina and was left to his own devices at the age... CESAR MILSTEIN I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels... SALLY QUINN The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, bu... OSHO In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobil... RADHANATH SWAMI When the wall came down in Berlin, the British had the BBC, and the American station was basically i... GARY SMITH My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived ... CARLOS SLIM I consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my fi... DOUGLAS KIRKLAND It's not that I want to break down the public schools, ... I want to improve them for every child, b... MARGARET YOUNG My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in cl... NATALIE BABBITT My father never liked me or my sister, and he never liked our mother either, after an initial infatu... ARAM SAROYAN I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of... TASLIMA NASRIN Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ENGLISH PROVERB My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden. ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my pare... JON KABAT-ZINN While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in... DOUGLASS NORTH You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER I myself was born in Sacramento, California in 1966. SARAH ZETTEL My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be... KURT COBAIN My father was - actually was an Episcopal priest as a young man. Became a psychotherapist, a psychol... JOSHUA BELL My father, a Palestinian, and my mother, an Israeli, met in a bar in New York. Their encounter was a... HANNAH LILLITH ASSADI I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist. WINONA RYDER My great-grandmother was born in London, the daughter of a Brixton coachman, and became the most fam... CHRISTOPHER LEE I went to the Alabama public schools at a time when my English teachers, all but one of whom was a w... THOMAS H. COOK I am the grandson of immigrants from Japan who went to America, boldly going to a strange new world,... GEORGE TAKEI I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in... OLAFUR ELIASSON I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an
American! DANIEL WEBSTER I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in... LEON ASKIN And though I've lived in the States for over 25 years and am now an American citizen, I still hear B... BERNARD CORNWELL My own mother, my sister and nearly all the women in my family had full-time jobs as mothers. They w... JANINE DI GIOVANNI While I am most at home in London, I cannot really label myself as either British or Trinidadian. I ... MONIQUE ROFFEY We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and po... ANDREAS SCHLEICHER The United States is no longer first in the world in upward mobility. We can reverse that trend by g... MADELEINE M. KUNIN I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age. ABEL FERRARA My father became a mythical figure, more force than man. . .he was a force my mother would use as a ... DAGOBERTO GILB As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler IZAAK WALTON My father has acted in over 700 films. My mother acted in one film, 'Kismat with Mithun Chakrabo... SHRADDHA KAPOOR My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My... CHUCK D We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world. DAN QUAYLE I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American. DANIEL WEBSTER I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American DANIEL WEBSTER I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American. JOHN F. KENNEDY My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the... TAJ MAHAL I've always been interested in photography, but I never really got into it until last year after I t... ANDREW LAPISKA Ginsberg turned out to be depressingly prescient when, after a heated argument with Norman Podhoretz... ROGER KIMBALL I was born at home in rural Kentucky, in 1942, in a house that my father Howard had built. He did mo... ROBERT H. GRUBBS In South by Southwest world, there is no greater artist than Neil Young. BRENT GRULKE My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my f... GREG KINNEAR My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are th... VINCENT GALLO 'Interview with a Vampire' is my all-time favorite. I also loved 'An American Werewolf i... NELSAN ELLIS My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father durin... GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of wom... LYNN NOTTAGE When my husband became a professor at USF in 1966 I remember the campus in Tampa was literally a was... SARAH PAPPAS Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way ... I'm pleased that... DALE CHIHULY You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have t... J.D. SALINGER I've been lucky to conduct the very best orchestras in the world: New York, San Francisco, Chica... ITZHAK PERLMAN
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