Glen Luchford is a Britishfashion photographer and film director. He lives and works in Venice, California. A self-taught photographer, Brighton-born Luchford left school at 15 and moved to London, where he worked at a hair salon. He was one of the youngest photographers to work for The Face Magazine aged just 20. Luchford first signed with New York based agency Art + Commerce at the age of 24. He was one of the first photographers to collaborate with model Kate Moss. In 1997, he signed exclusively to Prada, and has since shot advertising campaigns for Yves Saint Laurent, Givenchy, Chloé, Lanvin, Calvin Klein, and Gucci. He has collaborated extensively with British artist Jenny Saville with shows at the Gagosian Gallery. Luchford's work has also been showed and featured in the permanent collection of MoMA, Victoria and Albert Museum, The Getty Museum, and the Hermitage Museum. His editorial work has been featured in magazines such as The Face, Arena, i-D, and British, French, American, ItalianVogue magazines, Harper's Bazaar, and Self Service Magazine. Luchford's style is influenced by his love of cinema. His signature look is to work with cinematic lighting, both on location and in studio. Luchford was the first to bring this aesthetic into fashion photography. In 2001, Luchford directed the film Here to Where, about a filmmaker wanting to make a film about a man stranded at an airport. Nominated for the Michael Powell award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the film is considered to be an inspiration for Steven Spielberg's The Terminal. In 2009 Luchford completed his first solo monograph with Steidl/Dangin. In the same year, Luchford joined one of the leading artist management agencies Art Partner. Luchford has published six books, Jenny Saville & Glen Luchford: Closed Contact, Gagosian Gallery, Glen Luchford, Damaged Negatives, Glen Luchford: Pictorialism, which chronicles thirty-three years of his career and features both his earliest photographs and his most well-known ones. His latest book, The Agony and the Ecstasy, was published in 2018. Most recently, Luchford collaborated with Alessandro Michele on the re-branding of Gucci after Michele's appointment as the brand's Creative Director in 2015. He photographed the designer’s first campaigns, and created a brand new image of Gucci with Michele. His cinematic approach on the images took Gucci away from the sexualised campaigns of Michele’s predecessor Frida Giannini and the Tom Ford era. He photographed Gucci's campaigns until Spring Summer 2020. Outside of his photography and film work, Luchford has launched multiple businesses; in 2014 he bought and renovated The Rose Hotel in Venice, California, which he then sold in September 2019. Additionally, he owns a post production company called Venice Post.
