When 22 year old Richard Blanshard arrived at the 30th Cannes Film Festival in 1976, he could not have imagined that he would become the official photographer for the UK and US film industry at Cannes for the next two decades.
His first assignment at Cannes in 1976 was photographing Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, as they promoted their movie That’s Entertainment, Part II, the first of many.
