HASTINGS, EAST SUSSEX, UK.- Photographer Fay Godwin, 74, died. Fay Godwin was born in Berlin in 1931. Her father was a British diplomat and her mother was an American artist. She was educated at various schools all over the world. In 1958 she settled down to live in London. In 1966 she became interested in photography through photographing her young children. She had no training. In 1975 she published the first co-author book, The Oldest Road, with writer J.R.L. Anderson. She had exhibitions from the series that toured nationally. In 1978 she was a recipient of a major award from Arts Council of Great Britain to continue landscape work in British Isles, much of which is included in Land. In 1984 she started the British Councils overseas tour of Landscape Photographs. In 1985 she published Land. She held a major exhibition of Land at the Serpentine Gallery, London. In 1986 she had a South Bank Show, their first full-length documentary to feature a photographer. In 1986/7 she was a fellow at the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford. In 1987/90 she was President of the Ramblers' Association, UK. Then she became life vice president. In 1990 she was awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. In 1992 she was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland. In 1995 she received an Award from Northern Arts for the Year of the Visual Arts, and from the Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation to work on the contribution of small farmers to the character of the Cumbrian landscape. She had a major retrospective at the Barbican Centre in London 2001, with accompanying publication. She was given an Honorary Doctotorate of Arts at De Montfort University in 2002.