David Gamble

Andy Warhol's Warehouse, East Side NYC, 1987 by David Gamble - Pop Art

1987

David Gamble is a British contemporary artist, born in 1953. He is a multidisciplinary artist from London, now based in New Orleans, USA. His body of work consists of paintings, works on paper and photographs, all of which have been exhibited globally. Throughout the 1980s and 90s, he worked as one of the foremost international editorial photographers for publications such as The Observer, The Independent, LIFE, Fortune, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Paris Match, The Sunday Times and many more. Over his decades-long career, spanning the editorial, journalistic and fine art realms, Gamble has photographed such illustrious figures as Stephen Hawking and the Dalai Lama, with several of his portraits included in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery, in London and the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, in Washington, DC. In 1987, he won the Kodak Award for Best Photographer in Europe, as well as a World Press Photo Award, in 1988, for his portrait of Stephen Hawking, which was featured as the notable cover of Hawking’s A Brief History of Time.