Muhammad Ali's Personal Photographer Is Still Going Strong

John Stewart, 95, looks back on a life writ large in New York, the South of France and Burma.

British-born photographer John Stewart is now 95 and living in the south of France. He still takes pictures, relying on a rare pigment-based developing technique.

HughSchofieldTwitterPicOn behalf of the BBC, Hugh Schofield (pictured) recently had lunch with Stewart and was regaled with one stupendous anecdote after another:

“I was outside the [Henri] Matisse chapel in [St. Paul de] Vence at its inauguration, and another photographer was there,” Stewart recalls. “We started talking and he asked where I got my stuff developed.”

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