Cynthia Payne Greeting Card

Cynthia Payne - Two Brewers, London 1995

A regular contributor to i-D Magazine, portrait photographer Matthew R Lewis' work also featured in Frieze, Attitude and Gay Times. His work is referenced in many books with exemplary portraits of artists, gay culture and characters from the high and low life across the world.

Cynthia Payne (24 December 1932 – 15 November 2015) was an English brothel keeper and party hostess who made headlines in the 1970s and 1980s, when she was convicted of running a brothel at 32 Ambleside Avenue, in Streatham, London.