Biographie de Max Maxwell (Art Director) photographié par David Bailey.

En retraite à Ko Lanta !

LIFE IS WONDERFULL !

I HAVE NO COUNTRY ! NO HOME ! NO FAMILY ! I AM FREE

1940  October 8 born in Bombay, during a devastating cyclone.

1951   Traveled to London where I lived alone and acted as a tourist guide before startin gthe first of many boarding schools (where I learned northing ).

1958  Went to art college and was expelled (kicked out ).

1959   Started my own jazz club, and traveled for two weeks with Miles Davis,  from whom I learned NO SMALL TALKS, OR BORING CONVERSATIONS.

1960  Traveled in Switzerland, Provence, and Spain.

1961  Became art director of Queen Magazine London, and started going to New York and Paris several times a year.

1962  Was highest paid art director in Europe, and offered art directorship ol Look and Esquire Magazine in New York wich I refused.

1963  Became art director of Vogue Magazine, London.

1964  Returned to Queen Magazine, hung out with the Beatles and all the sixsties London crowd. Decided I did not want become rich and famous, AVOIDING THE APATHY AND EMPINESS OF AFFLUENCE.

1965  Retired from Queen, to be a photographer, started living in Spain, travelling world-wide on assignments of my choice, and was one of the highest paid photographers in Europe, using Nassau Bahamas as my winter    studio location.

1966  3 months photo trip in India and Ceylon.

1968  Had a major photographic exibition at Photokina, Koln, Germany, at the same time architecturally restoring rural estates in Spain, for fees as high as 50.000 us dollars was offered a million dollar commission to buy several farms, for a corporation, which I refused, THAT MUCH MONEY WOULD RUIN MY LIFESTYLE.

1971  Traveled for a year in Africa, from Senegal to Ethiopia.

1972  Started living in Goa in winter and Kashmir in summer.

1978  Began spending summer in Ladakh and winter in Goa, visited Afghanistan.

1985  Left Goa to windsurf , and live in Boracay island, Philippines.

1987   Started spending a few months in Bali, Hawaii, the Dominican republic, st. Martin. Still based on Boracay island.

1995   Started magical travels in Tibet.

1997   Discovered my paradise island of Ko Lanta, in the Andaman sea, where I spend 5 months a year, then Eastern Tibet and Lhasa, Ladakh 3 months in summer, with a few weeks in California and Santa Fe.

I BELIEVE THAT POVERTY IS WEALTH AND SOLITUDE GOOD COMPANY I HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED FEAR, BOREDOM OR LONELINESS LIVING IN PRIMITIVE LUXURY THE ENVY OF MILLIONAIRES 20 YEARS WITHOUT ELECTRICITY, ALWAYS FANTASTIC LOCATIONS SURROUNDED BY THE WONDERS OF NATURE.