Last Days of the Artic

Celebrating his career of over half a century photographing the world’s most famous stars, Proud Chelsea is pleased to bring you Screen Sirens & Rock Rebels, a Terry O’ Neill retrospective. This exhibition will include an unseen box set of photographs which will be sold exclusively through Proud Galleries as well as some never before seen images from Terry’s extensive archive.

It was another ordinary day in 1959 when Terry took a photograph – by chance – of the then Home Secretary asleep at Heathrow Airport which would change his life forever. Snapped up by a newspaper, it would set him along the path to stardom as one of the most influential photographers of our time. Since then he has captured the most famous faces in contemporary culture, such as Brigitte Bardot, David Bowie and the Rolling Stones, who loved his spontaneous and informal approach to shooting them. His images have catapulted many a rock star or screen goddess into mega stardom, capturing them at definitive moments in their careers, in press shots or more intimate settings.