Thomas Stoddart (28 November 1953 – 17 November 2021) was a British

photojournalist Photojournalism is journalism that uses images to tell a news story. It usually only refers to still images, but can also refer to video used in broadcast journalism. Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of photography (such ...

. He covered the

fall of the Berlin Wall The fall of the Berlin Wall (german: Mauerfall) on 9 November 1989, during the Peaceful Revolution, was a pivotal event in world history which marked the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the figurative Iron Curtain and one of the series of eve ...

, the

Lebanese Civil War The Lebanese Civil War ( ar, الحرب الأهلية اللبنانية, translit=Al-Ḥarb al-Ahliyyah al-Libnāniyyah) was a multifaceted armed conflict that took place from 1975 to 1990. It resulted in an estimated 120,000 fatalities a ...

, the

siege of Sarajevo The Siege of Sarajevo ( sh, Opsada Sarajeva) was a prolonged blockade of Sarajevo, the capital of Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the Bosnian War. After it was initially besieged by the forces of the Yugoslav ...

and the

2003 invasion of Iraq The 2003 invasion of Iraq was a United States-led invasion of the Republic of Iraq and the first stage of the Iraq War. The invasion phase began on 19 March 2003 (air) and 20 March 2003 (ground) and lasted just over one month, including 26 ...

Life and career

Stoddart was born in

Morpeth, Northumberland Morpeth is a historic market town in Northumberland, North East England, lying on the River Wansbeck. Nearby towns include Ashington, Northumberland, Ashington and Bedlington, Northumberland, Bedlington. In the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 ...

in November 1953. He began his career covering local news for the Berwick Advertiser, Northumberland and John Pick's Yorkshire Press agency, York. He continued his work as a

based in London and from there covered national and international stories including the

, the

and the

. Stoddart died from cancer on 17 November 2021, at the age of 67.

Publications

*''Sarajevo''. Washington: Smithsonian, 1998. . With an essay by Predrag Matvejevic. *''IWitness''. London: Trolley, 2004. . *''Extraordinary Women: Images of Courage, Endurance & Defiance ''. Woodbridge, Suffolk: ACC Art, 2020. . With a foreword by

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Awards

*2003: Winner,

Pictures of the Year International Pictures of the Year International (POYi) is a professional development program for visual journalists run on a non-profit basis by the Missouri School of Journalism's Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. POYi began as an annual competition f ...

World Understanding Award, for work on HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa *2003: Winner, Larry Burrows Award for Exceptional War Photography, for coverage of British forces fighting in Iraq *2008: Shortlisted,

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize is an annual photographic portrait prize awarded by the National Portrait Gallery in London. It was established in 2003 as the Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize. In the years 2006 and 2007 it was ...

, for "Murdoch Reflects"

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

*''Tom Stoddart – Extraordinary Women'',

Side Gallery Side Gallery is a photography gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne, run by Amber Film & Photography Collective. It opened in 1977 as Side Gallery and Cinema with a remit to show humanist photography "both by and commissioned by the group along with ...

, Newcastle, 2020/21

Exhibitions with one other

*''Edge of Madness – Sarajevo a City and Its People Under Siege'',

Royal Festival Hall The Royal Festival Hall is a 2,700-seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London. It is situated on the South Bank of the River Thames, not far from Hungerford Bridge, in the London Borough of Lambeth. It is a Grade I l ...

, London, 1997. Work by Stoddart and

Alastair Thain Alastair Thain (born 1961) is a German-born photographer. His portraits were published in 1991 as ''Skin Deep'', and many are held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London. With Tom Stoddart, he made work about the Siege of Saraje ...

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stoddart, Tom People from Morpeth, Northumberland 1953 births 2021 deaths English photojournalists Deaths from cancer