TOM STODDART: LEGACY
From the 5th of November to the 2nd January , Leica Gallery London are thrilled to present an exhibition of 25 images by award-winning photojournalist Tom Stoddart.
Born in the northeast of England in , Tom Stoddart applied for a job as a reporter for his local newspaper, the Berwick Advertiser, at the age of only With no writing vacancies, and only one for a trainee photographer, Stoddart took the remaining job and discovered life with a camera was suddenly far more exciting, marking the start of an extraordinary international career spanning five decades.
In , he moved to London and began working as a freelance photographer in Fleet Street, the then world-renowned centre of the British national newspaper industry and spent several years covering stories for the Sunday Times. His commissions meant that he was present to record some of the world's most notable historical moments. In he was in Beirut when Israeli forces bombed Yasser Arafat’s PLO base; that same year also found him aboard the Greenpeace ship, the ‘Rainbow Warrior’ in the Gulf of St Laurence in Canada where the environmentalists attempted to stop the Canadians culling baby seals. I
Tom Stoddart award-winning photojournalist in his own words
One of the best photojournalists of his time, Tom Stoddart has just died aged To remember his 50 years we are running an interview with Tom from earlier this year, that was originally published in Digital Camera magazine.
With a career spanning 50 years, the award-winning photojournalist Tom Stoddart is currently taking a comparative career break at his home in the north-east of England, mainly due to England’s rigid Covid lockdown regulations.
However, with his latest book, his work is still very much in the public eye. Extraordinary Women: Images of Courage, Endurance and Defiance features over images of the women he has encountered and photographed since the mids.
Stoddart has often come across women in conflict situations, in the midst of famines or natural disasters.
“All through my career, there are so many times that you notice whenever there’s a problem – whether it’s a famine, HIV/Aids or an earthquake – it’s always the women who turn and face the situation,” he says.
“They feed their families first,
In April , Tom Stoddart and the Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin travelled to war-ravaged Lebanon in search of the kidnapped Church of England envoy Terry Waite.
Though they did not find him they managed to bribe a Shia militia commander to allow them into a besieged Palestinian refugee camp. The pair were afforded a second window of opportunity to make a run for the camp without being shot at. “So we just held hands and ran and kept on running,” Stoddart recalled.
They reached a forward command post, catching the Kalashnikov-brandishing Palestinians by surprise. Fearing they were about to be shot by the other side, they shouted “British journalists. Don’t shoot” in Arabic.
Stoddart and Marie Colvin, far left, in Beirut with British doctor Pauline Cutting and her assistant nurse Susan Wighton
THE SUNDAY TIMES
What they found inside the camp was horrifying. “They were trapped.
Tom Stoddart
Tom Stoddart began his photographic career on a local newspaper in his native North-East of England. In he moved to London and began working freelance for publications such as the Sunday Times and Time Magazine. During a long and varied career he has witnessed such international as the war in Lebanon, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the election of President Nelson Mandela, the bloody siege of Sarajevo and the wars against Saddam Hussein in Iraq. In Tony Blair gave Stoddart exclusive behind the scenes access to his election campaign, as Labour swept victory after 18 years of Conservative government. His recent extensive work on the catastrophic AIDS pandemic blighting Africa has been widely published and exhibited. Now established as one of the world’s most respected photojournalists, Stoddart is represented by, and works closely with Getty Images, to produce powerful photo-essays on the serious world issues of our time.
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