Tom Stoddart
{{Short description|British photojournalist (1953–2021)}}
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| name = Tom Stoddart
| image = TOM STODDART 1979.jpg
| caption = Stoddart in 1979
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1953|11|28|df=y}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2021|11|17|1953|11|28|df=y}}
| birth_place = Morpeth, Northumberland
| occupation = Photojournalist
| website = {{URL|https://web.archive.org/web/20210911112022/http://tomstoddart.com/|tomstoddart.com}}
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Thomas Stoddart (28 November 1953 – 17 November 2021) was a British photojournalist.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/article/tom-stoddart-obituary-50h9zcq35|title=Tom Stoddart obituary|work=The Times|date=18 November 2021|access-date=18 November 2021}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/photographer-tom-stoddart-dies/|title=Photographer Tom Stoddart 'who shone a light where there had been darkness' dies aged 68|first=Dominic|last=Ponsford|work=Press Gazette|date=17 November 2021|access-date=18 November 2021}} He covered the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Lebanese Civil War, the siege of Sarajevo and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.{{cite web|access-date=2021-11-30|title=Tom Stoddart obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/nov/23/tom-stoddart-obituary|date=23 November 2021|website=The Guardian}}
Life and career
Stoddart was born in Morpeth, Northumberland in November 1953.{{cite web|title=Tom Stoddart's best shot|url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/oct/02/photography|date=1 October 2008|access-date=18 November 2021|website=The Guardian}} 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 photojournalist based in London and from there covered national and international stories including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Lebanese Civil War, the siege of Sarajevo and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Stoddart died from cancer on 17 November 2021, at the age of 67.{{cite web|access-date=2021-11-18|title=Farewell to Tom Stoddart, a photography master|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/photography/2021/11/farewell-to-tom-stoddart-a-photography-master|date=18 November 2021|website=New Statesman}}
Publications
- Sarajevo. Washington: Smithsonian, 1998. {{ISBN|9781560987963}}. With an essay by Predrag Matvejevic.
- IWitness. London: Trolley, 2004. {{ISBN|9781904563297}}.
- Extraordinary Women: Images of Courage, Endurance & Defiance . Woodbridge, Suffolk: ACC Art, 2020. {{ISBN|978-1788840989}}. With a foreword by Angelina Jolie.
Awards
- 2003: Winner, Pictures of the Year International World Understanding Award, for work on HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa{{cite web|access-date=2021-11-18|title=Remembering Tom Stoddart|url=https://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/latest/photo-news/remembering-tom-stoddart-156885|date=17 November 2021|website=Amateur Photographer}}
- 2003: Winner, Larry Burrows Award for Exceptional War Photography, for coverage of British forces fighting in Iraq
- 2008: Shortlisted, Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, for "Murdoch Reflects"{{cite web|access-date=2021-11-18|title=NPG photography prize shortlist announced|url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/sep/16/photography.prize.npg|date=16 September 2008|website=The Guardian}}{{cite web|access-date=2021-11-18|title=National Portrait Gallery - Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/photoprize1/site/exhibition_winners.php|website=www.npg.org.uk}}
Exhibitions
= Solo exhibitions =
- Tom Stoddart – Extraordinary Women, Side Gallery, Newcastle, 2020/21{{cite news|access-date=2021-11-18|title=Extraordinary women: courage and defiance through war and hardship – in pictures|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/oct/06/extraordinary-women-tom-stoddart-photographs|newspaper=The Guardian|date=6 October 2020|issn=0261-3077}}
=Exhibitions with one other=
- Edge of Madness – Sarajevo a City and Its People Under Siege, Royal Festival Hall, London, 1997. Work by Stoddart and Alastair Thain.{{cite web|access-date=2021-11-30|title=Powerful beyond words|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/powerful-beyond-words-5404792.html|date=21 April 1997|website=The Independent}}
References
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External links
- {{Discogs artist|Tom Stoddart}}
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Category:People from Morpeth, Northumberland