Al Vandenberg

On a Good Day

Al Vandenberg
Born Boston, USA 1932,
died Hereford, UK 2012
Vandenberg studied photography in New York with Richard Avedon, Alexey Brodovitch and Bruce Davidson and then worked in commercial photography
and advertising. He settled in London in 1974 and completely abandoned his commercial practice. Instead he developed his practice of documenting the unconventional people he encountered, according to his maxim «I photograph ona good day, when I feel good and the subject feels good». He scoured the London streets, finding people to photograph: «In a weekly ritual, I covered all of the inner London area ...Brick Lane Market on early Sunday mornings, jellied eels at 4am in Covent Garden, from World’s End to Sloane Square ...The list goes on. I covered London from one end to the other, working the street.»