A picture paints a thousand words and it has always been the case that a great photo can light up any page of a newspaper.
In today’s world of digital technology and citizen journalists lurking on every corner, photographers and photography have never been so important. Here you will find all the stories we have carried about this sector of the industry.
An Eastern Daily Press photographer has scooped a prestigious award for his remarkable picture of a teenager who played in last year’s amputee world cup football championships. Simon Finlay, (38), scooped the Eastern region’s Sports Photograph of the Year award
The Peterborough Evening Telegraph’s chief photographer has given a presentation on his career. Rowland Hobson gave the talk to the Peterborough Photographic Society and shared his experiences with other camera fanatics. One of the topics of the talk was the
A regional press photographer who spent more than 40 years working for the Grimsby Telegraph has retired. Dave Tilley, (60), joined the Telegraph in 1959 as a proof reader, and the following year became a junior photographer. Since then he
A quick-thinking press photographer helped bring a teenage thief to justice with just a few frames of film. Bolton Evening News photographer Marc Berry got pictures of a youth breaking into a Range Rover in a church car park and
Former national newspaper photographer Bryn Colton is to become the new picture editor of the Eastern Daily Press. He will take over from Dennis Whitehead who is retiring after 25 years at the paper, the last 10 as picture editor.
The Swindon Evening Advertiser has presented commemorative photo albums to two of the town’s mayors as a souvenir of their time in office. The special mementos, which contain pictures taken by photographers from the Evening Advertiser, were presented to councillors
A new book of historic pictures of Bristol from the Evening Post archives has been published. The photographs have been compiled by Post researcher Gerry Brooke who has worked for the paper for 29 years. The book Bristol – 50
Photographer Lee Flaws, whose camera recorded life in the West Country and especially mid Devon over the past half-century, has died aged 70. For many years Lee worked for the Mid-Devon Gazette Series, both as a staffer and a freelance,
A press photographer is about to see her work displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Barbara Evripidou (below), of the Bristol Evening Post, won a national competition for her portrait which captured a magical bond between a
Hair nets were the order of the day for everybody – including photographers – during a visit to a milk processing plant at Westbury, in Wiltshire. The snappers were there to photograph royal visitors Prince Edward and Sophie Wessex on
The 2003 Picture Editors’ Awards have been launched with the announcement of the categories and prizes for the event. The awards will see photographers from around the regional press battle with agency snappers and staffers from the nationals in 18
Press photographer Phil Walter couldn’t believe his luck when England’s Ashley Giles came to sit on the next table to him at a restuarant in Adelaide. Phil, who works for the Midlands-based EMPICS agency, had already called in to the
A man who achieved his childhood ambition to become a photographer is to retire after 40 years in the regional press. Picture editor Dennis Whitehead, (56), will leave the Eastern Daily Press, where he has worked for the past 25
One of the high spots of a West Midlands town is due to be pulled down shortly – news which prompted an irresistible challenge for press photographer Paul Kyte. He braved the heights of the Good Hope Hospital chimney to
A press photographer’s swift action may have saved a five-year-old’s life when she began choking and turned blue at an official event. Grant Falvey, of the Kent Messenger, spotted Ruby Gadsby choking on a meatball during a school dinner with
The work of an award-winning newspaper photographer has been dug out of the archive to fill the pages of a new book. Jim Facey’s work during the war for the Bristol Evening Post was preserved by his family, who have