{"id":934581,"date":"2026-05-03T07:57:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T07:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/934581\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T07:57:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T07:57:37","slug":"passport-pics-of-famous-faces-one-shot-no-frills-and-coat-still-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/934581\/","title":{"rendered":"Passport pics of famous faces &#8211; one shot, no frills and coat still on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">For nearly six decades, anyone and everyone who needed a passport photo shuffled through Dave Sharkey&#8217;s modest Oxford Street studio.<\/b><\/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":934582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-934581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116509582825332567","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}