Photographer: Terry Richardson.

Terry Richardson is a fashion photographer born in New York August 14, 1965. His father Bob Richardson was also a fashion photographer during the 60’s and 70’s, who battled with schizophrenia and drug abuse. With his work he wanted to capture the excitement and regrets of the free spirited generation. Bob Richardson was attracted to the tempestuous, messy, desolating quality of human relations. He was one of the first photographers to realize that those emotions where not just a part of the fashion industry during the 60’s but vital to it. With his work he wanted “to put reality in my photographs. Sex, drugs and rock "n" roll. That's what was 

happening. And I was going to help make it

 happen. Boy they did not want that in America. Some of those editors were still wearing white gloves to couture.” 

“In a 16-page spread in French Vogue in 1967, he evoked the sex idyll, the gloom and the sudden, all-obliterating passions of two lovers on a Greek island. In one shot, model Donna Mitchell is seen crying; in another she lies on a rocky shore, her face turned away, with her nude lover in the water before her.” Bob Richardson's pictures were radical because, more than showing youthful fashion in a liberated way, they sought to expose the life dramas that were then consuming young people."Which were not about being applauded as you made your entrance to the opera," said Joan Juliet Buck, the writer and fashion editor, "They were about crying in your room, feeling lonely, hoping for sex."

Actress Norma Kessler wife of Bob Richardson and mother of Terry Richardson, served as the assistant for the Greek island shoot two years later. "It was just my mom, Dad and me with a bag of clothes," Terry said. "They just went off together and did these pictures."

An early influence of an upbringing in Hollywood and going on expeditions with his father, Terry attended Nordhoff High school and was known for being lacking in social keys as he was a very shy teenager. He had a punk rock band The Invisible Government where he played bass guitar. Once his group split up actress mother Norma introduced him to the man who helped kick of his career as an assistant for Tony Kent. Finding some influence from his father Terry’s photographs are notorious for their controversial, graphic sexual subject matter.  Terry Richardson’s photographs tend to be very clean cut, fresh and brightly lit if in colour and very crisp in black and white.

Richardson has shot advertisements for fashion designers and editorial photographs,publishing photo books including Hysteric Glamour 1998; Son of Bob 1999; Feared by Men Desired by Women 2000; Too Much 2001; Terryworld 2004; Kibosh 2006; and Rio, Cidade Maravilhosa 2007. He has also directed music videos, including an alternate music video of the song “Find a new way” by Young Love featuring model Kemp Muhl. However, as talented he may be his attitude towards models has been criticised by Danish model and filmmaker Rie Rasmussen and others, who have accused Richardson of exploiting and sexually abusing the models he photographs. But model and actress Noot Seear has defended him, pointing out that he does not pressure those he works with into doing anything they are uncomfortable with, while designer Marc Jacobs although admitting problems within the industry, has said that as a person Richardson is "not ill-spirited." He has shot the likes of Amy Winehouse, Barrack Obama, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Lady GaGa, Rapper lil Wayne, Pharrell Williams, Courtney Love and many others.