Lyddell Sawyer
Lyddell "Lyd" Sawyer (1856–1927) was a British photographer and founding member of The Linked Ring group of photographers. Although he showed almost 100 prints at what was later to become the Royal Photographic Society, only a handful of his images are well known. Sawyer was born in North Shields on the River Tyne, and later moved to London. His early life in Tyneside had a lasting effect on his work, his Geordie roots shaping many of his photographs. Works such as ''The Apple Stealers Dividing the Spoils'', ''Nutting Time'', and ''Come Along Grandad'' offer evidence that his life was not one of affluence, in contrast to many of his southern contemporary photographers. Of the English members of the The Linked Ring, 'Linked Ring' Sawyer is probably the least well known. The main reason for this is very few of his photographs have survived, there are the four that were published in 'Sun Artists' in 1893 that was dedicated to him, along with such important figures in the history ...
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