VAL WILMER ON DESERT ISLAND DISCS
The great music photographer and writer reflects on a life well lived
Val’s photo of Albert King in full flight - to my mind possibly the finest ever photo of a blues guitarist as they play.
“Ah, Garth Cartwright, the man who made me famous,” said Val Wilmer when I rang her on Friday morning. Val was, of course, joking while kindly acknowledging how a feature I wrote on her in The Guardian last November alerted Radio 4’s …