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Errol Sawyer (born 1943, Florida, USA) is the son of African-American playwright Robert Earl Sawyer (1923-1994). Errol Sawyer currently lives and works between New York City and Amsterdam, Holland. He grew up in New York City, Harlem and the Bronx, studied history and political science at NYU, but found his vocation as a photographer while traveling in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in 1968. Sawyer bought his first camera in 1966 and became a professional photographer in 1969. Living and working in Paris and London in the early 1970's, he received commissions for Elle, Dépêche Mode and French Vogue. In 1978 he returned to New York and worked for American Vogue, New York Magazine and many other magazines. Since 1984 Errol Sawyer has devoted his energy toward the realization of special project assignments in the commercial arena. However, most of his time is concentrated in fine art photography. Since 2006 Sawyer has also been a guest professor of photography at the Technical University Delft, Holland. Sawyer has held exhibitions at the 4th Street Gallery (New York, USA), the Royal Photographic Society (Bath, England), La Musée de la Photographie (Bièvre, France), Foto Huset Gallery (Götenburg, Sweden), No Name Gallery (Basel, Switzerland) and La Chambre Claire Gallery (Paris, France). His work has been purchased by La Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris, France), La Musée de la Photographie (Bièvre, France), Schomburg Library of Black Culture (Harlem, New York) and the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, Texas).