{"id":563733,"date":"2026-05-03T08:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T08:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/563733\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T08:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T08:58:08","slug":"passport-pics-of-famous-faces-one-shot-no-frills-and-coat-still-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/563733\/","title":{"rendered":"Passport pics of famous faces &#8211; one shot, no frills and coat still on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For nearly six decades, anyone and everyone who needed a passport photo shuffled through Dave Sharkey&#8217;s modest Oxford Street studio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Located opposite Selfridges, it quietly became one of London&#8217;s most influential photographic institutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Muhammad Ali, Madonna, Sean Connery, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Marvin Gaye and many more actors, musicians, writers and athletes were photographed under the same rules as everyone else.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One shot, large-format negative, no frills &#8211; and often minutes before an embassy deadline &#8211; with coats still on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now an archive of more than 300 celebrity portraits from London&#8217;s Passport Photo Service is going on display for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For nearly six decades, anyone and everyone who needed a passport photo shuffled through Dave Sharkey&#8217;s modest Oxford&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-563733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}