Peter Robinson MA
Born February 1944 and educated at Leicester College of Art and The Royal College of Art.

During a long career in documentary photography , he also shot some sports events.
These include 13 World Cups and 10 Olympic Games, not to mention the hundreds of football matches in England and Europe in the 60s & 70s . Many of those early images were published in . . .
Football League Review - which sold for one shilling (5p).
Later he worked for more expensive magazines, such as ‘ONZE’ in Paris , NUMBER in Tokyo
‘ONZE’ in Paris , ‘NUMBER’ in Tokyo
and ‘SPORTS ILLUSTRATED’ in New York.
His football images from 99 countries, have been featured in more than 350 books, thousands of magazines, and liberally sampled by football social media.
His 2005 monograph ' Football Days ' is a best selling illustrated book of football, and regarded as a definitive work on the subject. The follow-up book ‘ 1966 Uncovered ‘ - a visual record of the 1966 World Cup, was completed in 2006.
Both books were awarded ‘Illustrated Sports Book of The Year’.
After 24 years as FIFA’s Official photographer, in 2015 he was appointed as the photography consultant to THE FIFA MUSEUM in Zurich.
An April 2022 article in The Athletic / New York Times sports journalism website , declared he was arguably the world’s greatest living soccer photographer.

Institutions who have his work in their collections include :
Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin Germany
Museo Historico Nacional Buenos Aires Argentina

‘ SOCCERAZZO ’ - a studio workshop producing fine art prints from his photo archives will be in operation from mid- 2024

Peter wishes to thank Harry Pearson for the section intros.
Michael Palin and Wim Wenders provided the inspiration.
George Best 7 photograph in section 7 is by Roger Bamber

CONTACT : peter@robinson.uk

All images on this web site were made by Peter Robinson and all rights are reserved
Some images may be ©PA Images , so please contact Peter Robinson regarding reproduction /use rights