Bio
Philip Collier was born in Boston Massachusetts. He is a Graduate of the New England School of Photography where he studied documentary photography. Influenced by the works of W. Eugene Smith, August Sander, Dorothea Lange, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus and many others -- he took to the streets.
He started in the streets of Boston recording the local fire departments, Feast of San Gennaro in Little Italy, The Bicentennial Celebration in Concord, Massachusetts and The Abortion Rights Demonstration in The Boston Commons.
In 1975, he moved to NYC where he photographed for the 1980 Democratic Convention , 1984 Summer Olympic Committee, The feast of St. Anthony’s, The Macy’s Day parade and various other street and political events.
In 1980 he moved to Newport Beach, California where he started taking sea and landscapes.
In 1981, he moved back to Boston where he went to Wentworth Institute of Technology and spent the next 25 years in electronic engineering.
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