Editing Koo Stark (section)

===Photography===
Stark has worked as a photographer since the 1980s, and may have been the first person to turn the tables on the pursuing [[paparazzi]] by taking photos of them.<ref name=clifford>Liam Clifford, [http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/latest/photo-news/koo-stark-returns-to-london-for-the-first-time-in-23-years-104411 Koo Stark returns to London for first exhibition in 23 years] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170903070945/http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/latest/photo-news/koo-stark-returns-to-london-for-the-first-time-in-23-years-104411 |date=2017-09-03 }} dated April 12, 2017 at amateurphotographer.co.uk, accessed 12 November 2017</ref> [[Prince Andrew, Duke of York|Prince Andrew]] has told how in 1983 a photographic printer, Gene Nocon, invited Stark to take photographs of people taking photos of her, for his exhibition, ''Personal Points of View'', planned for October. She persuaded Nocon to include Andrew's work as well.<ref>Prince Andrew, ''Photographs'' (Hamilton, 1985), p. 8: "The next step in my development as a photographer, apart from my trial and error experimenting, came when Koo Stark, now Jefferies, came back to the U.K. with some pictures of herself for printing, taken by Norman Parkinson. She went to see photographic printer Gene Nocon. At this time Gene was organising an exhibition planned for October 1983. The theme was photographs taken by people who were the subjects of photographers. He invited her to take part. It was called "Personal Points of View". Koo came to see me and suggested that I should take part as well. I replied that I was sure that I wouldn't be allowed to. Koo then went back to see Gene without my knowledge and asked him if a friend of hers could also take part. Although Koo was reluctant to name names and Gene was equally reluctant to agree to an unknown person taking part, it seems they came to an understanding..."</ref> Her early photographs led to a book deal, for which she took lessons from [[Norman Parkinson]]. She travelled to [[Tobago]], where he lived, and he became her mentor. Her book ''Contrasts'' (1985) included about a hundred of her photographs. She went on to study the work of leading photographers, including [[Angus McBean]], whom she met and photographed,<ref>Phil Coomes, [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-39816498 In pictures: Koo Stark on both sides of the lens] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170717051328/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-39816498 |date=2017-07-17 }} dated 8 May 2017 at BBC.co.uk</ref> developing her interests in photography to include reportage, portraits, landscapes, still life, and other work.<ref name=clifford/>

The book ''Contrasts'' was launched at Hamiltons Gallery, London, in September 1985, at an exhibition of the same name.<ref name=bjp85>''British Journal of Photography'', Volume 132 (Henry Greenwood & Co., 1985), p. 1022</ref> In 1994, the Gallery Bar at the [[Grosvenor House Hotel]] in [[Park Lane]] hosted an exhibition called 'The Stark Image', forty photographs by Stark, including several previously unpublished.<ref name=bjp94>''[[British Journal of Photography]]'', Volume 141 (Henry Greenwood & Co., 1994), p. 58</ref> In 1998, her work was featured at the Como Lario in Holbein Place, [[Belgravia]].<ref>Jim Ainsworth, ''The Good Food Guide 1998'' (Which? Books, 1998), p. 87</ref> In July 2001 she had an exhibition called 'Stark Images" at the Fruitmarket Gallery in [[Edinburgh]],<ref name=bjp01>''British Journal of Photography'', Volume 148 (Henry Greenwood & Co., 2001), issue 7346</ref> duplicated from June to July 2001 at [[Dimbola Lodge]] on the [[Isle of Wight]].<ref name=observer>Harriet Lane, [https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2001/jun/17/featuresreview.review The Stark ages] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171113113008/https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2001/jun/17/featuresreview.review |date=2017-11-13 }}, in ''[[The Observer]]'' dated 17 June 2001, accessed 12 November 2017</ref> A solo exhibition of portraits was at the Winter Gardens, [[Ventnor]], from September to October 2010,<ref name=onthewight>David Bartlett, [https://onthewight.com/koo-stark-exhibition-at-winter-gardens/ Koo Stark Exhibition At Winter Gardens] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171117122111/https://onthewight.com/koo-stark-exhibition-at-winter-gardens/ |date=2017-11-17 }} dated 8th September, 2010, at onthewight.com, accessed 12 November 2017</ref> and another at Dimbola Lodge from February to April 2011.<ref name=iwcp>[http://www.iwcp.co.uk/events-february-2011.aspx Events February 2011] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201032835/http://www.iwcp.co.uk/events-february-2011.aspx |date=2017-12-01 }} at iwcp.co.uk, Isle of Wight County Press, accessed 19 November 2017: "Koo Stark Contrasts Art Exhibition at Dimbola Lodge Museum, Freshwater, closed Mondays."</ref>

On 22 April 1987, a charity auction at [[Christie's]], [[St James's]], for the [[Campaign to Protect Rural England]], featured signed work by [[David Bailey]], [[Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield|Patrick Lichfield]], [[Don McCullin]], [[Terence Donovan (photographer)|Terence Donovan]], [[Fay Godwin]], [[Heather Angel (photographer)|Heather Angel]], [[Clive Arrowsmith]], [[Linda McCartney]], Koo Stark, and fifteen others,<ref>''British Journal of Photography'', Volume 134 (Henry Greenwood & Co., 1987), p. 234</ref><ref>''BBC Wildlife'', Volumes 4-5 (1986), p. 201</ref><ref>''Arts Review'', Volume 39, Issues 1-13 (Richard Gainsborough Periodicals, 1987), p. 136</ref> Views by Stark, including some of [[Kirby Muxloe Castle]], were in G. H. Davies's ''England's Glory'' (1987), a CPRE book launched at the same time.<ref>Review of G. H. Davies's ''England's Glory: a Photographic Journey through England's Threatened Landscape'' in ''Antiquity'', Volume 61 (Antiquity Publications, 1987), p. 476</ref>

Pictures by Stark have appeared in ''[[Country Life (magazine)|Country Life]]''<ref>''British Design Strikes a Winning Pose by Jennifer Guerrini-Maraldi, photographs by Koo Stark'' in ''[[Country Life (magazine)|Country Life]]'' volume 191 (1997)</ref> and other magazines. Several of her portraits are in the [[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]],<ref>[http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp19378/koo-stark Koo Stark (1956-)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171113112739/http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp19378/koo-stark |date=2017-11-13 }} at npg.org.uk, accessed 12 November 2017</ref> and work is also in the collections of the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]], both in London.<ref name=onthewight/>

A [[Leica Camera|Leica]] user, Stark has said her camera transcends mere function and is a personal friend.<ref name=barlow/> A solo exhibition hosted by the Leica gallery in [[Mayfair]] in May 2017 was entitled ''Kintsugi'', a Japanese word for a way of renovating things that have been broken. Stark explained the title: "Kintsugi is a way of learning to see individual beauty, and to appreciate the value of experience and honesty. It is the antithesis of digital, airbrushed, Photoshop-homogenised 'beauty'."<ref name=clifford/> In August the exhibition was repeated in Manchester, to mark the opening of a new Leica store there.<ref name=barlow>Nigel Barlow, [http://aboutmanchester.co.uk/koo-stark-exhibition-comes-to-manchester/ Koo Stark exhibition comes to Manchester] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171113005259/http://aboutmanchester.co.uk/koo-stark-exhibition-comes-to-manchester/ |date=2017-11-13 }} dated August 11, 2017, at aboutmanchester.co.uk, accessed 12 November 2017</ref>