This is the first time Carinthia West has shown her photographs, and says she feels very privileged to be in such estimable company. As a model, actress, debutante and 'it-girl' of the 1970's, she 'hung out' with some of the world's most respected musicians and performers, taking photographs on her single reflex Canon camera, and experimenting with different types of film, just for her own amusement and never intending publication.
Many of her subjects were also her close friends at the time, and include David Bowie, Neil Young, Helen Mirren, Carly Simon and James Taylor, and many more, but for this exhibition she has chosen several portraits of Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger and Ronnie Wood.
Her other achievements include a range of roles in television (from the BBC's Crime and Punishment with John Hurt to the Rutles, with Eric Idle) and for the past thirty years, a respected career writing articles for Harper's Bazaar, Marie - Claire, and the Telegraph, among many others. She is now planning a photographic book and exhibition for 2010, to be entitled 'Hanging Out', as she claims that this is what she most likes doing.
