Nigel Kendall was educated in New Zealand and, after coming to the UK, studied design and photography at the Bournemouth & Poole College of Art. In 1965 he moved to London and started work in advertising, then in the following years became a magazine journalist, working for Conde Nast, IPC business Press, and Morgan Grampian, and eventually becoming Editor of a 250,000 circulation home interest publication.
