Studio Five became a place in London for young photographers to develop their skills; photographers Norman Eales,[9] Vic Singh,[10] John French,[11] Tony Rawlinson, David Mist,[12] Peter Ogden, Brian Duffy,[13] Gavin Davis, Gorden Carter, Derek Weston, Robert Dibue, Laurence Sackman (who worked later for Harper's Bazaar) David Bailey,[14][11] Vernon Dewhurst,[15] Jeremy Bailey, David Radley, Michael Claydon (who had a relationship[16] with model Joanna Lumley who was photographed at Studio Five) all produced work at Studio Five.
: the smashing rise and giddy fall of Swinging London, Shawn Levy wrote: "It was in the Daily Express, in fact, that Bailey published his first really important photo--an image of the model Paulene Stone wearing a dark knee-length skirt and a bright turtleneck mohair sweater and crouching on the leaf-strewn ground to commune with a squirrel, who was nibbling on an ort.
Terence Donovan, who didn't yet know Bailey, was among the people who reacted strongly to the image, pronouncing himself "disturbed by its freshness and its oblique quality."
On the strength of that shot and a few other striking pictures, Bailey found himself hired in May 1960, as a full-fledged photographer at John Cole's Studio Five, earning thirty to forty pounds a week.
[13] Many of the top fashion models of the 1960s were photographed including Twiggy,[20] (Cole appeared in the BBC Documentary Twiggy, the face of the 60s, photographing Twiggy outside St Pancras Station in London), Joanna Lumley,[21] Grace Coddington,[22] Pattie Boyd, Paulene Stone, Linda Keith, Georgia Gold, Caroline Saunders, Shakira Baksh, Victoria Vaughan, Celia Hammond, Dorothy Bond, Jill Kennington, Suzy Kendall, (who married Dudley Moore the comedian and pianist who was a regular visitor to Studio Five[23]) Jenny Hanley, Norman Scott (who was involved in the Jeremy Thorpe scandal) Ros Watkins, Ted Hemming, and Liese Deniz.
International, Manchester-based Osborne Peacock, Fletcher/Forbes/Gill design studio), many top fashion magazines (including Tatler,[24] Bystander, Country Life, Flair, Record, Vanity Fair, She, Hairdressers Journal) and many national newspapers (including Daily Mail, Evening Standard, Guardian, Evening News, Daily Express, Sunday Times).