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created on: 1/04/2026
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Richard Young (born in 1947 in London, England, UK) is an English society and celebrity photographer.
His photography career started in 1974, and since then, he has photographed many prominent people, including Diana, Princess of Wales, Elizabeth Taylor, and Mick Jagger.

Young grew up in North London, where he regularly assisted his father who ran a stall at Berwick Street Market. He attended the defunct William Wordsworth Secondary School, from where he was expelled with his contemporary school friend Marc Bolan when they were both 15. He worked in a boutique in King's Road where he served singer songwriter, Leonard Cohen.
In 1968, he went to Paris where he spent nine months working with advertising and fashion photographer, John Bishop.
In the early 1970s, he moved to New York City where he worked at Electric Lady Studios and his girlfriend was photographer Flo Fox. He returned to London in the spring of 1974 and worked at a bookshop on Regent Street.

In 1974, Young's career in photography began when he was asked to take pictures for a book written by John Cowper Powys. Later that year, he was invited to photograph philanthropist John Paul Getty III as he went around London. These pictures earned him a job as a freelance photographer at the Evening Standard.
He then worked with gossip magazine, Ritz Magazine, from 1976 to 1983, where he was given free rein to publish whatever pictures he wanted. Among Young's early photographs is a photograph taken of Keith Moon dining with Paul McCartney, hours before Moon died. Another is a photograph taken of Elizabeth Taylor kissing Richard Burton at his 50th birthday party at the Dorchester.

As of 2010, Young had worked with the photographic agency Rex Features for three decades. He and his wife, Susan Young, owned their own gallery, the Richard Young Gallery in Kensington. His work as well as those by other photographers is displayed at the gallery.
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Partner (not married) : Flo Flox
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Submitted by : bob (10686)
on : 01/04/2026