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Valerie Wilmer

7/12/2021

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rValerie Sybil Wilmer was born On This Day 7 December 1941. A British photographer and writer specialising in jazz, gospel and blues and British African-Caribbean music and culture.

Streatham resident at 33 Prentis Road with associations to nearby Swing shop in Mitcham Lane.
In her long career, Val has worked with with hundreds of singers, jazz musicians and writers, and she has taken famous photographs of artists such as Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane and Duke Ellington, among others.

In 1983 Wilmer, along with Maggie Murray, founded Format: the first all-women photographers’ agency in Britain.

Her photographs were exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum and form part of the V&A’s photographic collection. Her photographs are also held in the National Portrait Gallery.
Val is the author of important books about jazz and black music: “Jazz People” (1970), “The Face of Black Music” (1976), “As Serious as Your Life: The Story of The New Jazz” (1977), “Mama Said There’d Be Days Like This: My Life in the Jazz World” (1989). She contributes for The Guardian.

( SnapGalleries https://www.snapgalleries.com/portfolio-items/val-wilmer/)
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Some of Val Wilmer's photos can be found on the National Portrait Gallery site https://www.npg.org.uk/.../person/mp61039/val-wilmer...
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3 Comments
Ansar Ullah
27/4/2023 03:13:03 am

Wish to contact Val

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Mark Bery
27/4/2023 03:55:41 am

Can you contact me [email protected]

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W.P. van Zon link
27/8/2024 04:31:48 am

Please contact me about the possibility of putting 1 of Va's Kinks photos on display at our The Kinks - Godfathers exhibotion.
Best, Wim van Zon

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