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There are celeb photographers, then there's Terry O'Neill. Born to Irish parents on the outskirts of London, Terry got his break working for an airline at Heathrow. Bored, waiting in the terminal, he snapped a shot of a man who'd fallen asleep in his seat. It turned out his somnolent subject was Home Secretary Rab Butler. In the wake of this scoop he found work on Fleet Street with the Daily Sketch. His first gig? Photographing Laurence Olivier.

In the Sixties things went stratospheric. He shot Judy Garland, The Beatles, The Stones, even the Royal Family, always in an unconventional way that captured some idiosyncrasy your average paparazzo is sure to miss. His ramble into show business continued to bear strange fruit. He ended up marrying Faye Dunaway, and took a famous series of pictures the morning after she'd won her Oscar for Network. His work has been exhibited across the world, from the National Portrait Gallery in London to the San Francisco Art Exchange. You'll find some of our favourite O'Neills below, but if you want to see more why not take a look at the collection?