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Karl Ferris

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  • Karl Ferris is an English photographer/designer, best known as the principal innovator of "Psychedelic" photography, using his invented secret Infrared color technique. The photographer to the Sixties "British Rock Elite" - Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Cream, Donovan, The Hollies and The Fool. Ferris was invited, as a style consultant and their personal photographer, to help create their public images. He was given an insider's access to the "Experience" that helped define the look of the 1960s and influence youth culture and lifestyles worldwide.

    Later he became a Film Producer, Director, Writer and Art Director, of films, such as: Revolution, Ibiza Dreams, Wear Your Love Like Heaven and Hieronymus Bosch Decoded.
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  • British photographer who discovered and promoted The Fool, a psychedelic art and clothing design collective that was popular in London in the late 1960's. Clients included several British rock bands of that era, such as the Hollies, Cream, and most famously, the Beatles.

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