Harry Gruyaert

Harry Gruyaert (born 1941) is a photographer known for his images of India, Morocco and Egypt as well as of the west of Ireland and for his use of color. He is a member of Magnum Photos. His work has been published in a number of books, been exhibited widely and won the Kodak Prize. In 1969 Gruyaert made his first trip to Morocco.The resulting work won him the Kodak Prize in 1976 and was published in the book Morocco in 1990. He travelled to India for the first time in 1976 and to Egypt in 1987. Gruyaert was experimenting with Kodachrome color film for his documentary work in the late 1960s, contemporary with work by Ernst Haas, William Eggleston and Joel Meyerwitz touted by US commentators as 'The New Color',though after that of other Americans Saul Leiter, Gordon Parks and Vivian Maier in the 1950s. With Alex Webb, he was one of the first in the Magnum agency to shoot entirely in color when he was invited to join in 1982.

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