Neil Selkirk

Selkirk's recent project, Certain Women, was on display from March 19 to May 2, 2015, at the Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York City. “The series has taken Selkirk far afield from that for which he’s best known: frank portraits of celebrated authors, filmmakers, statesmen, athletes, and their recognizable ilk, which he has shot since the 1970s for Esquire (where he got his start under Jean-Paul Goude), Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and many other publications. He has also produced a strong body of documentary and street photography that reflects his having studied with Diane Arbus and worked in the studio of Richard Avedon.”

In 2005, Selkirk directed the documentary film, Who is Marvin Israel, about Marvin Israel (1924-1984), an artist, designer, art director and teacher, who influenced many of the important photographers and designers of the twentieth century, including Richard Avedon and Diane Arbus, as well as Selkirk himself. The film, which premiered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and aired on the Documentary Channel, explores Israel's life and work through the words of those who knew him.

By the 1990s, Selkirk was known as a portraitist with a distinctive style. In August 1993, the photographs from his limited edition portfolio were featured in the Minneapolis Institute of Art exhibition, 3 Photographers, and 3 Portfolios along with the work of Diane Arbus and Richard Avedon.

Neil Selkirk (born June 25, 1947) is a British-born American photographer known for his portraiture.

Selkirk was born in London, England, in 1947. “An accomplished portrait photographer and masterful documentarian,” he studied Photography at the London College of Printing and graduated in 1968. He won a British Arts Council award to photograph New York and therefore moved to New York City in 1970. There, he worked as an assistant for photographer Hiro at the studio of Richard Avedon. The following year, he studied with photographer Diane Arbus in her master class. His photographs quickly drew assignments from major magazines including Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Interview, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and the premier issues of Wired, Paper, Colors , and Spy.