John Everard, born Edward Ralph Forward, was a First World War veteran (he was awarded the Military Cross) and former rubber planter,[1] who became a British portrait, fashion, stage and studio
photographer.[2] He was a noted photographer of
nudes from the late 1920s until the early 1960s.
Life
Everard had a studio in Orange Street,
London and was self-taught. The book Second Sitting included photographs of a young
Pamela Green. As early as 1939,
Walter Bird, John Everard and
Horace Roye had decided that they were giving each other too much competition. To resolve that difficulty they decided to cooperate, and they set up a company called Photo Centre Ltd. They made their headquarters in a suite of rooms above Walter Bird's studio in
Savile Row, and Eves without Leaves was their first joint publication.