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Errol Sawyer

American photographer (born 1943)

Errol Sawyer

Sawyer in Paris, 1973.

Born

Errol Stanley Sawyer


(1943-08-08)August 8, 1943

Miami, Florida, United States

DiedDecember 24, 2020(2020-12-24) (aged 77)

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Known forPhotography
MovementStreet photography
Spouse(s)Mathilde Fischer, architect
ChildrenVictor Leonard Sawyer
Websitewww.errolsawyer.org

Errol Stanley Sawyer (August 8, 1943 – December 24, 2020) was an American photographer who lived and worked the last twenty two years of his life in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.[1]

Early life

Sawyer was born in Miami, Florida, to parents Robert Earl Sawyer (1923–94) and Mamie Lucille Donaldson (1928–2009).

His father was an African American playwright, actor, director and producer whose family emigrated from Nassau, Bahamas, to Miami.[2] His mother, an African American-Cherokee Indian originally from Bainbridge, Georgia 10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Christie Brinkley LOGU