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Marc Stanes |
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1980-82 d’Overbroeck’s quite simply changed my view of education and broadened my horizons. Arriving in 1980 from Harrow aged 16, I was used to a rigid environment with endless rules and regulations. Quite simply, I did not work at all at Harrow and was largely left to my own devices. When I received 1 O Level it was clear that the Public School environment was not working and my father gave me the choice of changing to another educational establishment. He found the best 3 private colleges (in his view) in the country, took me for a meeting at each and left me to make up my own mind. I chose d’Overbroeck’s and it was a decision that neither my father nor I regretted. The tutors were young and exciting and the freedom of being in Oxford was, for me, energizing. For the first time in my life I worked very hard. To be able to learn with other students in very small groups and being taught by people who you liked and listened to was a revelation. I particularly enjoyed being taught by Sami Cohen, even though I must have been a particularly difficult student and I have some very funny memories of some of our tutorials. After d’Overbroeck’s I started work as an Assistant Photographer, and I have been a professional photographer since then. I have regular exhibitions, mainly in London and New York, and focus mainly on still lifes, extreme landscapes and portraits. My most recent commissions include a 2003 portrait of Nelson Mandela, and the official royal portraits taken in 2005 of Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester. I live between Cape Town and London. |
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