Author: A. F. Kersting
Born: 7 November 1916
Died: 2 September 2008
Bio: A. F. (Anthony Frank) Kersting, born in Wandsworth, South London, was a British architectural photographer who studied at Dulwich College. His images of British, European, and Middle Eastern architecture also feature urban and village life, landscape, commerce, transport and leisure. He was considered to be the leading architectural photographer of his generation.

After leaving Dulwich he worked at the Sloane Square branch of Lloyds Bank. In 1936 the publication in newspapers of his photographs depicting the new Peter Jones department store influenced a change in career. In 1939 he volunteered for the Royal Air Force and, in 1941, was posted to Egypt. After the war Kersting continued to work as a freelance architectural photographer, illustrating books for Batsford, Nikolaus Pevsner's Guides, Arthur Mee's King’s England series, and Encyclopedia Britannica, as well as working for Country Life and for the National Trust. In 1947, Kersting was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and, in 1999, an exhibition of his photographs was held at the Wandsworth Museum.

Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Kersting)