To date, Hollingworth has photographed many hundreds of comedians and comic actors from all schools of comedy, and his vast portfolio includes Bill Bailey, Steve Martin, Jo Brand, Ken Dodd, Victoria Wood, Ricky Gervais, Eddie Izzard, Beryl Reid, Rowan Atkinson, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Stephen Fry, Flight of the Conchords, The Mighty Boosh, Ross Noble, Paul Merton and the Comedy Store Players.
He was the sole photographer granted access on the set of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's seminal show The Office, staged a solo exhibition at the National Media Museum and Hollingworth's work is now recognized as an important archive for the medium.
Outside the comedy industry, he has photographed an eclectic range cultural figures; Ian McKellen, Billy Bragg, Simon Armitage, Ken Loach Jim Broadbent, Jarvis Cocker, Carol Ann Duffy, Willy Russell, Graham Dean, Richard Dawkins, Roger McGough, Anthony Gormley and Brian Cox.
His work has toured in several major exhibitions and he has been published in The Independent, The Big Issue, the Daily Express, The Times, the Journal of the Royal Photographic Society[2] and has twice been featured in the British Comedy Awards.
[4] Running from Greenbaum in 2015 ran in London at the former "Snap" Gallery in Picadilly Arcade, from 13 August to 19 September and proved so popular that it got extended by a week.