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.
A photographer who used to work for the Lewisham News Shopper is displaying some of her artwork in a photography exhibition at Blackheath. Lucy Cohen and her partner Michael Kalesteras are taking part in the Independent Photography Project exhibition at
A collection of football photographs taken by the Liverpool Echo’s Stephen Shakeshaft are to go on display later this month. Stephen, the Echo’s picture editor, will be exhibiting photographs of Liverpool and Everton at the Museum of Liverpool Life, from
When the Mail’s senior photographer, Phil Dawes, was dishing tea out to the reporters 39 years ago, little did he realise where his tea-making duties would lead him. Nowadays, Phil is more likely to be found drinking tea than making
Former Northern Echo photographer Iain Weir has been honoured at an annual golf event. Eighteen golfers, many of them former colleagues, took part in the second annual Iain Weir Memorial Golf Day. Iain, who was 38, died two years ago
Bath Chronicle photographer Brian Stevens has retired after 40 years with the paper. He started his career at the Wiltshire Gazette, and intially arrived at the Chronicle to fill in for six months before taking up a job on the
A photographer with Mid Somerset Newspapers was in the right place at the right time and his work is now gracing the cover of a greatest hits album by local legends The Wurzels. Jason Bryant gave the country icons a
Former news photographer Eddie Wood, who pictured the highs and lows of the Westcountry for nearly 40 years, has died. He was 78, and had been suffering from cancer. Eddie started his career in his native Tyneside in 1937 on
As chief reporter of the Anglia Advertiser Andy Watts is expected to carry a camera around with him too – but it often pays off as these pictures show. The first one was snapped when he got to the scene
Page 1 of 2 A press photographer found himself in front of the camera for a change when he was presented with a prestigious police award during a ceremony he was covering for his paper. Wiltshire Times photographer Trevor Porter
Jim Tampin, the respected chief photographer of the Dorset Echo, will retire today. After training as a photographer in the Army more than 30 years ago, Jim has since travelled the world during his career spending many years in Kenya
Page 1 of 2 Nottingham Evening Post photographer, Trevor Bartlett, has been reunited with the surgeon who saved his life. Back in 1984, Trevor collapsed in the paper’s newsroom. He had just climbed down from a table after taking a
Hundreds of people have turned out to pay their respects at the funeral of photographer Len Pitson. The former South Wales Evening Post chief photographer died aged 68, after a three-and-a-half year battle against cancer. Singer Bonnie Tyler and Catherine
A photographer has told how his daughter watched in horror as a plane hijacked by terrorists flew into New York’s World Trade Centre. For four desperate hours Derbyshire Times chief photographer Bernard Jones waited to hear if daughter Caroline was
A winner of one of the prestigious Picture Editors’ Awards has completedhis dream assignment, working on news feature stories in Indonesia. James Williamson, the Guinness Young Photographer of the Year spent three weeks travelling to offshore fisheries, coffee and sugar
A former Plymouth Evening Herald photographer has been looking back at his career as he gets ready to celebrate 60 years of married life. Rowland Squier and his wife Winifred will soon be celebrating their Diamond wedding anniversary. The pair
Lincolnshire Echo photographer Ben Birchall is currently displaying some of his work at an exhibition in Hampshire. Three of Ben’s photographs, which show his perspective of “the workplace”, are on show as part of an exhibition entitled Quite Refined, at