Biography — THE SATURDAY MAN

Peter Robinson MA ( RCA )
Born February 1944 and educated at Leicester College of Art and The Royal College of Art.

During a long career as a documentary photographer , he also shot some sports events.
These include 13 World Cups and 10 Olympic Games, not to mention the hundreds of football matches in England and Europe in the 60s & 70s . Many of those early images were published in . . .
Football League Review - which sold for one shilling (5p).
Later he worked for more expensive magazines, such as ‘ONZE’ in Paris , and ‘SPORTS ILLUSTRATED’ in New York
His football images from 102 countries, have been featured in more than 350 books, thousands of magazines, and liberally sampled by football social media.
His 2005 monograph ' Football Days ' is a best selling illustrated book of football, and regarded as a definitive work on the subject. The follow-up book ‘ 1966 Uncovered ‘ - a visual record of the 1966 World Cup, was completed in 2006.
Both were awarded ‘Illustrated Sports Book of The Year’.
After 24 years as FIFA’s Official photographer, he was in 2015 appointed the photography consultant to THE FIFA MUSEUM in Zurich.
In April 2022 an article in The Athletic / New York Times sports journalism website , declared he was “arguably the world’s greatest living soccer photographer “

Institutions who have his work in their collections include :
Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin Germany
Museo Historico Nacional in Buenos Aires Argentina
The National Portrait Gallery in London England

‘ SLOWMEDIA ’ - a studio workshop producing fine art prints from his photo archives will be in operation from early 2025

Peter wishes to thank Harry Pearson for the 7 chapter intros.
Michael Palin and Wim Wenders who provided the inspiration and Roger Bamber who provided the final image in the Saturday chapter

CONTACT : peter@robinson.uk