Sam Haskins occupies a unique and highly influential place in the history of post war creative photography. An outlier from South Africa whose work played a key role defining the feminine identity and photographic thinking of the 60’s. 

While a prolific and wide ranging artist, his quintessential creative signature was a mastery of figure photography and portraiture often using nonprofessional models.

“Arguably the most influential photographer of the 1960s, his work has been plagiarised mercilessly.”  Harper’s Bazaar August 2003

Born in 1926 in Kroonstad South Africa, Haskins studied fine art in Johannesburg just after the war and then from 1949 to 1950 photography in London, at the Bolt Court School, a precursor to the London College of Printing. He moved with his family to London in 1968. In 2001 along with his wife Alida, he left the UK for Australia and passed away in Bowral in 2009.