Annie Leibowitz Crunched

I read this in last night's Evening Standard. Annie Leibowitz, the world's highest-paid photographer, is in an immense amount of financial trouble.

I'm no student of Leibowitz, but I do think some of her work is fantastic. She has taken some of the most iconic celebrity photographs of the last 30 years, and will always be remembered among the photography community for that. Now, though, with her debts being completely unmanageable (which seems to be the result of over-indulging and overspending on luxury properties), she stands to lose the rights to her entire photography collection.

That would surely be devastating news for any photographer - to watch creative control of their entire life's work pass into the hands of lawyers.