Photography as Activism

Tom Stoddart

Tom Stoddart, who is represented by and works closely with Getty

Images, has been making remarkable humanistic photographs and

winning awards for 40 years. During his long career, which began in a

local newspaper in the Northeast of England when he was 17, he has been

seriously injured (by an explosion in Bosnia) and witnessed many of the

important events of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He was on

the ground in Lebanon, in Sarajevo, and in Iraq when Saddam Hussein

was deposed. He saw the Berlin Wall fall, Nelson Mandela elected, and

Americans shell shocked by 9/11. He has seen famine, death, genocide

and its aftermath, and the ...