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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

British sixties model Jill Kennington

Jill Kennington has led what you might call a full, rich life. :-)


Ms. Kennington was discovered by a modeling agent in London in while working at the famed Harrods department store. She modeled during the height of the Swinging London period of the mid-1960s, and she later lived and worked in Paris and Rome. She worked with legendary photographers such as David Bailey, and her assignments took her all over the world.


Today, Jill Kennington is a photographer, a vocation she began in 1982, and she lives in the English countryside in West Dorset. You can learn the details of her incredible biography in an interview with her by going to this link.

Fun fact: Jill Kennington had a small part in Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 classic movie Blow Up.

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