Andrew Lawson

Andrew Lawson (born 19 March 1945) is a British photographer, artist and author. Early life and education The fifth of six children of Sir William Lawson CBE BA FCA, he was educated at Lancing College in Sussex (Captain of the School 1963). At Pembroke College, Oxford, he read medicine and was editor of The Isis magazine, Chairman of the Art Society, and President of the College Junior Common Room. After his BA degree he abandoned his medical studies in November 1966. Florence had been flooded, and Lawson took the first available train to the city to help with the salvage of damaged art and waterlogged books. Subsequently, from 1968 to 1972, he studied Fine Art at St Martin's School of Art in London. As a painter, he has exhibited at The Royal Academy, The New Grafton Gallery and The Gallery in Cork Street. Lawson's photographic career followed his time working as a publishing Art Director, commissioning photographs to illustrate books and increasingly contributing his own pictures.