Born April 4, 1934 in Lancashire, UK. From 1952 in South Africa, working for the Daily Mail in Johannesburg and later Drum magazine. Invited to join the Magnum Agency by Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1962; full member since 1967. From 1964: first contract photographer for London’s The Observer Magazine. Worldwide assignments, including the coverage of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, conflicts in Israel, Ireland, Vietnam and the Congo, the famine in Ethiopia, and the impact of Apartheid in South Africa. Berry has always worked with Leica cameras – from the M2 to the M9. In 2012, Leica honoured him with a personalised black-lacquer Leica M9-P. The photographer lives in Salisbury, UK.
