PAUL FEARN

Selected published work

Photographs by Paul Fearn, and archive images from the Piemags library, have been licensed for more than a thousand published uses.

Cover of Airliner World magazine, June 2023, showing an Airbus airliner banking away from the camera against a blue sky.
Airliner World, June 2023Key Publishing. Cover photograph by Paul Fearn.
Front cover of the book Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth by Adam Zamoyski.
Napoleon: A LifeAdam Zamoyski, 2018. UK title: The Man Behind the Myth.
Front cover of the book Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture by Murray Fraser.
Global History of ArchitectureSir Banister Fletcher’s, 21st edition, 2020.
Front cover of the book Dreaming in Code by Emily Arnold McCully.
Dreaming in CodeEmily Arnold McCully, 2019.

Covers reproduced with the permission of their publishers.

Magazine covers

  • Airliner World, June 2023Key Publishing. Cover photograph for the issue’s Inside Airbus special, which included test flying the A321XLR and a Le Bourget preview.

Aviation photography in the trade press

Aviation Week Network runs Paul Fearn’s aviation photography as the lead image.

On Wikipedia

Paul Fearn donates photographs to Wikimedia Commons under a free licence. Forty-one of his photographs are held there, thirty-seven of them currently in use, appearing forty-four times across forty articles on the English and Malay Wikipedias.

The articles illustrated by his photographs include Canadair CT-133 Silver Star, Air-to-air photography, Aviation photography, Airborne Tactical Advantage Company, Learjet 60, Cessna Citation V, Beechcraft Premier I, Bombardier Challenger 300, Hawker 800, Cessna Citation Latitude, Gulfstream G400/G500/G600, Asiana Airlines, Air Premia, Reno Air, Volaris Costa Rica, United Airlines, Aircraft livery, Cessna Citation Sovereign, Cessna 414, Gulfstream G100, Beechcraft RC-12 Guardrail, Air Tractor AT-802, Short SC.7 Skyvan, De Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk, WestJet, San Diego International Airport, Gulfstream G550, Naval Air Facility El Centro, Bombardier Challenger 850, Set Jet, Dassault Mirage F1, Aggressor squadron, Nellis Air Force Base, Exercise Red Flag, Van’s Aircraft RV-8, Frontier Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Los Angeles International Airport, Atlas Air.

Books

Archive and stock images licensed through Alamy, credited as piemags or one of its collection names.

  • Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of ArchitectureEdited by Murray Fraser, 2020
  • Napoleon: The Man Behind the MythAdam Zamoyski, 2018
  • Second Front: Anglo-American Rivalry and the Hidden Story of D-DayMarc Milner, 2025
  • Sword: D-Day – Trial by Battle2025
  • Mapping Shakespeare: An exploration of Shakespeare’s worldsJeremy Black, 2018
  • The Complete Fungi: Evolution, Diversity and EcologyDavid S. Hibbett, 2026
  • Bugs, Butterflies, Beetles and Bees: A Visual Bug and Insect GuideDK, 2026
  • Atlas of Botany: An Exploration of Plants Across Time2026
  • Polar: Explore the Earth’s Coldest, Wildest Places2026
  • Insect Architecture: How Insects Build and Engineer
  • The Military Transport Book: The Definitive Guide2026
  • Moonlight Crusaders: Special Duties Pilots2026
  • Lost Railway Journeys from Around the WorldAnthony Lambert, 2018. Two images.
  • The Rise of the Railway: How Trains Changed the World2025
  • The Worlds of Hayao Miyazaki: The Influences2025
  • Early Buddhist HedonismBernat Font, 2026
  • WJEC GCSE History: Changes in Health and Medicine c.1340 to the present dayR. Paul Evans and Alf Wilkinson, 2018. Two images.
  • Dreaming in Code: Ada Byron Lovelace, Computer PioneerEmily Arnold McCully, 2019
  • The Most Influential Women in the ArtsAvery Elizabeth Hurt, 2018
  • Mrs Kauffman and Madame Le Brun
  • Hats!: Style and Statement in Global Headwear
  • The German Peasants’ War of 1525
  • White Lies: How the South Lost the Civil War
  • Haunted History of Salem, Massachusetts
  • Cádiz: The Story of Europe’s Oldest City
  • The Cherokee
  • DK Super History: Underground Railroad
  • The History of the USA Year by Year
  • Bahamas Primary Social Studies, Grade 5
  • DK Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza
  • Daring Sea Evacuation at Dunkirk
  • Oxford Resources for IB DP History: Conflict
  • The Second World War
  • Mai 1945: Das absurde Ende des Dritten ReichesGerman language edition
  • Habsburkové: země Koruny české ve středoevropské monarchiiCzech language edition

Online and editorial

  • Forces NewsSeven features using archive imagery, from the women of the Battle of Britain to Black Tot Day, 2020 to 2025.
  • lovemoney and lovepropertyThree galleries on abandoned America, historic American homes and the rust belt, 2024 to 2025.
  • History FactsThree features, 2025 to 2026.
  • Interesting FactsTwo features, 2025.
  • BuzzFeedTwo rare-history picture features, 2025 and 2026.

Wider use

Images are licensed worldwide through Alamy, IMAGO, SuperStock and Pond5, and directly, appearing in books, magazines, documentaries and educational publishing.

Press

  • Photo Archive NewsQ&A with Paul Fearn on the launch of the Piemags photo library, March 2022.
  • IMAGONew IMAGO partner: Piemags, August 2022.