Pat York was born in Jamaica and has lived and traveled all over the world. She started her career in the Fashion Department of Vogue magazine in New York and then moved to Glamour magazine as the Photographer/Travel Editor. Photographing and writing assignments internationally continued the pattern of her life.

Becoming a freelance photographer, her work appeared in numerous publications worldwide including Vogue, Time, Newsweek, Life, Town and Country, Playboy, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue Hommes, The London Times, The Independent on Sunday, and Stern.

Since 1997, York has exhibited her work in major museums in the United States, Russia, Poland, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Belgium, Germany, France, England, and Hong Kong. Documentaries have been made of her museum exhibitions in Europe and Aspen, Colorado.

Her photographs are in many private collections in the United States, Germany, Great Britain, France, and Australia.

York’s work is included in many books as covers and illustrations.

Her own publications include a photographic book of the film version of Michel Tournier’s Vendredi Ou LaVie Sauvage (Gallimard, Paris, 1981), Going Strong, a book of photographs and interviews (Arcade of Little Brown, 1991), and Covered–Uncovered, with photographs and text by Pat York (Galerie Gmurzynska, 2004).

Additionally, York has just completed a screenplay from a novel she optioned called, The Marzipan Pigeon.

She has lectured at the International Center of Photography in New York and other venues both in the United States and abroad.

York is married to the actor, Michael York, whom she met 40 years ago on a photographic assignment. They live in Los Angeles—and wherever their work takes them.

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