Photographer Nancy Sandys Walker
Portrait of Nancy Sandys Walker (1910-1988), who entered the photographic profession via art school and a stint working as an assistant to Norman Parkinson when he opened his Dover Street studio in 1934, working on society portraits as well as his on-location fashion work for the British Edition of Harper's Bazaar up until 1940. When Parkinson moved to Vogue in 1941, Nancy stepped out on her own as a commercial photographer. She worked in Scaioni's Studios from that stage, taking over Parkinson's action realism style of fashion photography for Harper's up until the 1950s (later moving to Vanity Fair), honing superb technical skills in the use of lighting, whilst always displaying an unwavering eye for contrast and composition. Nancy retired from photography in the early 1970s, entering a second career designing and making jewellery
