Brian hamill biography

Brian Hamill was born in Brooklyn, NY and studied photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

In the mid 1960s, Hamill began his long career as a photojournalist covering everything from the Rock & Roll scene, politics, and entertainment to sports (especially the boxing world).

He also worked for a few years as an assistant to several top fashion photographers in the late sixties.

In the early 1970s, he traveled to Northern Ireland to photograph the troubles there for The New York Times Magazine, and simultaneously widened his photojournalistic scope into a unit still photographer on movie sets.

Since then he has worked as a unit still photographer on over seventy-five movies including twenty-six Woody Allen films, resulting in the much acclaimed coffee table photo book entitled “Woody Allen At Work: The Photographs of Brian Hamill” (Harry N.

Abrams, 1995).

Hamill’s work has also appeared in numerous other books, public