Harry Gruyaert
Visual storyteller
Harry Gruyaert is known for his images of India, Morocco, Egypt and Ireland, and for his use of vibrant colour. He trained at the School for Photo and Cinema in Brussels, and worked as a director of photography for Belgian TV. He has been a full member of Magnum Photos since 1986, and has had over a dozen books of his work published.
Harry Gruyaert is first and foremost a visual storyteller. Perhaps that’s hardly surprising: his career began as a freelance director of photography for TV. Some of his groundbreaking stills work saw him shooting the 1972 Olympic Games and the first Apollo flights as they were broadcast on his TV set. The resulting pictures became the exhibition TV Shots, published as a book in 2007.
Gruyaert is widely regarded as one of the great European colour photographers; his work stands
